in both 1 & 2, I only see money pits... This sounds like so much overhead... Par for the course for enterprises, but I see too many startups now deploying 50+ microservices and suffering with the overhead (hosting, maintenance, employee-count/churn/training, monitoring etc).
> in both 1 & 2, I only see money pits... This sounds like so much overhead...
That's the point. The overhead is high but the other options to employ extra developers bring even more overhead. And the company wants extra developers because the faster (or more parallel) development still has a good ROI.
If you want low overhead, a small team is the way to go.
