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>I used to work at Pex, where microservices were done beautifully. Would love to read about this architecture. Is there a blog post you can link to? >If your
by vlod 4y ago
>I used to work at Pex, where microservices were done beautifully.
Would love to read about this architecture. Is there a blog post you can link to?
>If your problem can be solved by load balancers or caching or DB indexes, you are not even close to needing microservices.
It's funny, do people not know about this stuff anymore? It's the low hanging fruit for scalability.
- surprisetalk 4y ago> Would love to read about this architecture. Is there a blog post you can link to? I don't think they have any blog posts about it, but the CEO/architect doggedly pursued simplicity. There was a single pub-sub messaging bus and a bunch of VMs in autoscaling groups. There were 2 databases optimized for different workloads. That's pretty much it. > It's funny, do people not know about this stuff anymore? It's the low hanging fruit for scalability. People tend to diagnose themselves with "special" diseases, whose treatments won't work for "common folk" :) I've done it myself plenty of times haha