47 microservices became 3. Same functionality. 90% cost reduction.

Before: three engineers spent their days keeping infrastructure alive. Not building features. Maintaining the machine. Architecture tax in salary alone: $450K-$600K/year.

After: those same engineers shipped more product improvements in one year than the entire team managed the year before.

Same people. Same skills. Fewer services.

How many of your services could merge without losing functionality you actually use?