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You can't solve your way out of a complex problem that you have created and which wasn't needed in the first place. The entire microservices thing was overly co
by ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago
You can't solve your way out of a complex problem that you have created and which wasn't needed in the first place. The entire microservices thing was overly complex with zero benefits
I spoke to multiple Netflix senior technicians about this.
They said that's the whole shtick.
- iLoveOncall 2y agoThat's a ridiculous statement. PrimeVideo is the leader in terms of sports events streaming over internet and it is composed of hundreds of microservices. Live streaming is just much harder than streaming, and it takes a years of work and a huge headcount to get something good.
- sgarland 2y agoPrime famously undid some amount of their microservices recently because it couldn’t keep up, and was hideously expensive.
- iLoveOncall 2y agoIt was a single team for a very specific use case. To be clear when I said that PrimeVideo is composed of hundreds of microservices, I actually meant that it's composed of hundreds of services, themselves composed, more often than not, of multiple microservices. Depending on your definition of a microservice, my team alone owns dozens.
- crop_rotation 2y agoThis comment shows how a very random blog about a very small part of a product can dominate all conversation about it. Prime video famously did not undo anything. Out of 100+ teams one team undid one service. But somehow similar comments are common on HN. I am making no judgement or microservice or not just on this particular comment.