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> With Evernote, Bending Spoons identified that the backend needed a complete rewrite. They moved from a monolithic architecture running on manually provisioned
by CiccioNizzo 8mo ago
> With Evernote, Bending Spoons identified that the backend needed a complete rewrite. They moved from a monolithic architecture running on manually provisioned virtual machines to a microservices architecture with managed databases, significantly improving performance and scalability.
And accidentally turned it into a shitty product in the process :-)
- johnnyanmac 8mo ago"accidentally", huh. Such a charitable take. Well, the goal of the optimizations wasn't to benefit the customer or even make the app faster. It was to make it easier for a skeleton crew to maintain. If that chopped out a few features, oh well.