# Microservices, monoliths and laser nail guns: Etsy tech boss on finding the right focus — > S C A L E

<https://medium.com/s-c-a-l-e/microservices-monoliths-and-laser-nail-guns-how-etsy-finds-the-right-focus-in-a-sea-of-cf718a92dc90#.w89dm4v2i>

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

John Allspaw has a long history on the web from Salon to Friendster to Flickr. For the past five years, he has been at popular e-commerce site Etsy, where he’s now VP of operations and infrastructure. Among software architect types, Etsy has developed a reputation as maintaining a monolithic application architecture in an era of microservices, often leaving Allspaw playing the role of contrarian.

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