Floran Pagliai, CTO at Weglot, shares their journey of handling over 3 billion API requests per month with a monolithic approach.
Initially joining as the first developer, Pagliai focused on migrating to Symfony, setting up CI/CD pipelines, and preparing for scalability.
Utilizing Cloudflare for caching, Weglot manages to cache 55% of requests at the edge, streamlining their single /translate endpoint.
Despite the trend towards microservices, Weglot continues with a monolithic PHP/Symfony application, prioritizing mastery, simplicity, and practicality over tech trends.