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ex-AWS here May be marketing but it is an architecture born out of Amazon's (and AWS's) use of AWS: - Reliable scalability: How Amazon.com scales in the cloud
by ignoramous 3y ago
ex-AWS here
May be marketing but it is an architecture born out of Amazon's (and AWS's) use of AWS:
- Reliable scalability: How Amazon.com scales in the cloud, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeW9wCB36ck&t=993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeW9wCB36ck&t=993 (2022)
- How AWS minimizes the blast radius of failures, https://youtu.be/swQbA4zub20 https://youtu.be/swQbA4zub20 (2018)
For massive enterprise products like Slack that need close to 100% uptime across all their services, cells make sense.
- mike_hock 3y agoCells, interlinked.
- gumballindie 3y agoYeah that's what microservices were meant to achieve. Suppose the market is staturated with "microservices", so a new term was needed.
- ignoramous 3y agoMicroservices is one reason you need cells. If you haven't, the second talk I linked to might interest you.