How a 35% Total Ownership Cost Drop in Year Two Rewrote Black Friday Load Handling with Microservices

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1) Why this list matters: The moment we cut TCO by 35% and stopped treating modularity as a budget sink I remember the Friday our telemetry lit up like a Christmas tree