TikTok is looking to sustain its meteoric rise by diversifying into other product areas. While its e-commerce initiative has now crashed and burned, areas like games and music could fare better. When should a company stay focused on one product and when should it expand into new areas? 

Glyn Roberts and Dave Hecker, two leading CTOs from London and Silicon Valley, put their heads together. They then bring microservices and serverless into question. With a huge organisation like Stack Exchange successfully running on such a small architecture set, are we sometimes too quick to jump to the microservices or serverless option? 

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