Should that be a microservice? Factors to keep in mind
> Independent Scalability<p>This reason for microservices comes up over and over but I’ve never understood it.<p>If you scale a monolith, only the hot code paths will use any resources. 
Having a monolith makes it _easier_ to scale as you can just scale a single app and it will be perfectly utilized. If you have microservices you need to make sure every single one has headroom for increased load.<p>Scaling up a whole monolith only to increase capacity for one code path doesn’t have any unnecessary overhead as far as I can see. Remembering that if your microservice is on a VM then you are scaling up the OS too which has millions of lines of code - something no one (rightly) is concerned about.<p>Am I missing something?