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If your services were all setup the same, what was the big advantage to have them separate? Wouldn't you get the same scalability from running 10x of the monoli
by spricket 8y ago
If your services were all setup the same, what was the big advantage to have them separate? Wouldn't you get the same scalability from running 10x of the monolith in parallel with a lot less work?
- mattigames 8y agohaha I see you haven't worked with edx, basically a lot of services just go down and the main reason to have them separated is so they don't ALL go down, insights/metrics service infamously is hard to get up and steady.
- clintonb 8y agoThe primary advantage was time to market. When I started five years ago edX had a monolith that was deployed weekly...after a weekend of manual testing. The organization was not ready to improve that process, so we opted for SOA. By the time the monolith had an improved process—2 years later—we had built about three separate services, all of which could be deployed multiple times per day.