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I hear Sam Newman’s - Monoliths to Microservices is worth a read.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) 12•1 year ago
Wasn’t everyone here up in arms against micro services a week ago or so?
Just curious what everybody thinks.
- Ryonia Coruscare ( @ryonia@beehaw.org ) 11•1 year ago
I’ve been out for a bit, what’s wrong with them? Or is this being mixed up with microtransactions?
- Sarah Asakura ( @sarahasakura@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 13•1 year ago
Nah, there have been some blogs recently from engineers who were bucking the Microservice trend - Notably Amazon Prime Video moved back to more of a monolith deployment and saw performance improvement and infrastructure cost reduction
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/shift-back-monolithic-architecture-why-some-big-making-boudy-de-geer
I wouldn’t say anything is wrong with them, the pros and cons have been there, but the cons are starting to be more recognized by decision makers
- falsem ( @falsem@kbin.social ) 3•1 year ago
I mean, Prime Video is still a bunch of microservices, it comes down to where you define the boundary between 'service and ‘microservice’. That blogpost was specifically about “the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service”. Eg it’s a service/microservice for QA, not for all of Prime Video. I’m sure there are seperate services for billing, browsing, captioning, and streaming.
And although the author called it “moving from microservices to monolith” it’s more about moving from serverless to more traditional compute.
- Ryonia Coruscare ( @ryonia@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Ahh, thanks for the info!
- r1veRRR ( @r1veRRR@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
The Prime Video example was more like moving from nano-service insanity to sanity. They basically split EVERY POSSIBLE STEP into separate lambdas. They switched to still using microservices, but they do all transcoding steps for a single video on the same microservice instance (aka sanity).
- Adlangx ( @lightninhopkins@mastodon.social ) 7•1 year ago
@xilliah @dandelion afaik microservices are fine. Just like a monolith can be fine. Maybe it just depends what you are sick of working with. :D
- Case ( @Case@unilem.org ) English5•1 year ago
Ah, the animal computer books of my childhood, lol.
My parents (both in tech fields) had a library of these before they split up.
Somehow I wound up in IT as a career, no one saw that coming, I assure you /s