Tag: Monoliths
Best of 2023: Microservices Sucks — Amazon Goes Back to Basics
Richi Jennings | | Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Web Services, AWS, Marcin Kolny, microservice, microservice architecture, microservices, microservices architecture, microservices pros and cons, microservices vs. monoliths, monolith, monolithic, monolithic applications, monolithic apps, monolithic method, Monoliths, monoliths pros and cons, monoliths vs. microservices, scalable microservices architecture, scaling microservices, serverless, serverless architecture, serverless computing, serverless computing framework, serverless technology, The Long View, Werner VogelsIn this week’s #TheLongView: Amazon Prime Video has ditched its use of microservices-cum-serverless, reverting to a traditional, monolithic architecture. It vastly improved the workload’s cost and scalability ...
8 Hot Takes: Will We See a Monolithic Renaissance?
Ericka Chickowski | | application development, microservices, Monoliths, serverless, software developmentIs the DevOps world slowly backing away from microservices and to a monolithic renaissance? After years of proselytization about the benefits (Flexibility! Resilience! Support faster release speeds!) of microservices and serverless architecture, ...
Why Boring Tech is Best to Avoid a Microservices Mess
Gaurang Torvekar | | application development, cloud-native, engineering, microservices vs. monoliths, MonolithsMicroservices are all the rage. A Forrester study found that 76% of enterprises were rearchitecting applications for microservices. At the same time, microservices are definitely not a silver bullet. Among those already ...
How to Scale Microservices CI/CD Pipelines
Bill Doerrfeld | | canary release testing, CI/CD, microservices, microservices architecture, Monoliths, scaling microservicesAs opposed to a traditional monolith, microservices architecture can theoretically bring many benefits. Microservices decouple software elements, enable reusable components and allow independent development cycles. However, in practice, microservices are prone to ...
Microservices: The Advantages of SOA Without Its Drawbacks
Zeev Avidan | | agile, microservices, monolithic applications, Monoliths, service oriented architecture, soaService Oriented Architecture (SOA) was the great hope of organizations decades ago when they sought to advance legacy system integration, reduce and bypass layers, and rapidly access the system of record. At ...
Low-Risk Monolith-to-Microservice Evolution, Part 1
In designing and organizing a two-day workshop on microservices, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain monolith application decomposition and what a transition to microservices might look like. This is ...
