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Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

world.hey.com | article | 2023-05-13

Topics: Microservices Software Engineering

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. What a win! But beyond celebrating their good sense, I th...


Monoliths are not dinosaurs

www.allthingsdistributed.com | article | 2023-05-13

Topics: Software Engineering

Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.


So many bad takes — What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

adrianco.medium.com | article | 2023-05-13

Topics: Microservices Software Engineering

The Prime Video team published this story: Scaling up the audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%, and the internet piled…