Best of AmazonMay 2023

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    Avatar of dhhDavid Heinemeier Hansson·3y

    Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

    The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90% on operating costs, and simplified the system too. But beyond celebrating their good sense, I think there's a bigger point here.

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    Avatar of freecodecampfreeCodeCamp·3y

    Full-Stack Development with Next.js, TypeScript, and AWS

    Full-Stack Development with Next.js, TypeScript, and AWS Amplify is a new full stack app course. The course goes deeper into backend development. It's a great chance to enhance your skills. Watch the full course on the freeCodeCamp.org YouTube channel.

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    Avatar of kdnuggetsKDnuggets·3y

    How Hard is it to Get into FAANG Companies

    In the last two years, FAANG companies alone were responsible for over 50,000 layoffs. The acronym was coined by CNBC’s Jim Cramer in 2013. FAANG is a stand in for tech companies at large – think Microsoft, AirBnb, and Spotify. After 60k layoffs, these companies probably have tons of talented applicants.

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    Avatar of hackernoonHacker Noon·3y

    The Easiest and Hardest Programming Languages to Learn

    The Easiest and Hardest Programming Languages to Learn are called programming languages. Computer systems are completely dependent on human beings to train them to take decisions. High-level languages have been developed which consist of English language words to help human beings program the computer systems.

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    Avatar of semaphoreSemaphore·3y

    10 Best Alternatives To ChatGPT: Developer Edition

    Semaphore ChatGPT has been on the rise since its introduction. It completely changed how everyone, including developers, uses AI. This chatbot has significantly improved numerous areas, such as precise search results, enhanced human skills, and coding.

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    Avatar of amplicationAmplication·3y

    Amazon Ditches Microservices for Monolith: Decoding Prime Video's Architectural Shift

    Amazon Ditches Microservices for Monolith: Decoding Prime Video's Architectural Shift. This all stemmed from a blog post they published in March, sharing how they cut 90% of their costs by migrating their microservices architecture to a monolith. Amazon's tool was broken into three main components: the media converter, defect detectors, and orchestration.

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    Avatar of bytebytegoByteByteGo·3y

    EP59: 90% Cost Slash: From Serverless to Monolith

    New Relic Grok is the World’s First Generative AI Observability Assistant. This week's system design refresher: Top 7 Most-Used Distributed System Patterns. The two most expensive operations are: 1. The orchestration workflow - AWS step functions charge users by state transitions and the orchestration performs multiple state transitions every second.

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    Avatar of bytebytegoByteByteGo·3y

    EP61: The journey of a Slack message

    The journey of a Slack Message How GraphQL works in the real world Different cloud services Bytebytego Collective Thrive in any job market with Interview Kickstart. Join the ByteByteGo Collective to start getting bi-monthly drops of world-class hand-curated engineers who are open to new opportunities.

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    Avatar of hackernoonHacker Noon·3y

    419 Stories To Learn About Kubernetes

    A Guide to Taints and Tolerations, Node Affinity and Node Selector Taint and affinity in Kubernetes are two mechanisms that allow users to specify how pods should be scheduled on nodes in a cluster. Learn how to monitor your Laravel application by services instead of hostnames.

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    Avatar of devopsDevOps.com·3y

    Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics

    Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. The move from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith application helped achieve higher scale, resilience, and reduce costs. Amazon's video streaming service achieved a 90% reduction in operational costs.

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    Avatar of allthingsdistributedAll Things Distributed·3y

    Monoliths are not dinosaurs

    Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion, says John Sutter. Sutter: Re-evaluating and re-architecting our systems to meet the ever-increasing demands of our customers. There is no one-size-fits-all, he says, and no particular architectural style is mandated.

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·3y

    Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%

    The move from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith application helped achieve higher scale, resilience, and reduce costs. At Prime Video, we offer thousands of live streams to our customers. To ensure that customers seamlessly receive content, Prime Video set up a tool to monitor every stream viewed by customers.

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    Avatar of hackernoonHacker Noon·3y

    125 Stories To Learn About How To

    These 125 free stories are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the [/Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology. The online marketplace platform offers a great opportunity for buyers and sellers to get in contact and sell products through the platform.