David Heinemeier Hansson·3yEven 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.
The Software House·3ySoftware Architecture 2023 – definitions, trends & resources
Software Architecture 2023 - definitions, trends, trends & resources. In order to create a safe, easy-to-maintain and high-performance application in 2021, you need to learn more about software architecture. This article is meant to serve as an introduction to the topic of software architecture in 2021 for CTOs.
David Heinemeier Hansson·3yHow to recover from microservices
The worst form of microservices madness is when you splinter a single, coherent flow across multiple systems. When microservices are done right, they often target a narrow, isolated, and usually performance-critical segment of the system. The vast majority of systems should have no more than two backend languages in play at any one time.
Amplication·3yMonoliths to Microservices using the Strangler Pattern
Strangler Pattern is a software design pattern used to refactor monolithic applications to microservices. It helps developers replace parts of the monolith with new and improved components while maintaining the same functionality. The Strangler Pattern uses a wrapper to integrate the microservices with the monolithic.
Amplication·3yAmazon 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.
ByteByteGo·3yEP59: 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.