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And what exactly do you think lila, lila-ws, and redis are if not microservices (or as they should be called, “services”)? Lichess could easily be implemented a

by enneff 2y ago

And what exactly do you think lila, lila-ws, and redis are if not microservices (or as they should be called, “services”)? Lichess could easily be implemented as a single monolithic process but it is not.

immibis 2y ago
They are services, but not micro. lila-ws spun off of Lila for a good reason (fault isolation) and not because "let's make everything a service". And they don't follow any standard microservice pattern - a reverse proxy isn't a microservice.
- enneff 2y ago
  https://github.com/lichess-org/lila?tab=readme-ov-file#production-architecture-as-of-july-2022 https://github.com/lichess-org/lila?tab=readme-ov-file#produ...
  - immibis 2y ago
    this architecture diagram shows that lichess is a traditional monolith with a handful of functions separated.