Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs by 90%

The move from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolith application helped achieve higher scale, resilience, and reduce costs.

Prime Video Tech
@preslavrachev I love a little confirmation porn in the morning.
@preslavrachev I can imagine the next post being "how we moved off AWS" to help scaling and reducing costs
@preslavrachev I have so many pent up inside that it's giving me ulcers. The correct time is *now* πŸ˜€β€‹
@preslavrachev Not really news https://segment.com/blog/goodbye-microservices/ But very telling that Prime had to do this to reduce spend on their own infra πŸ˜†
What are Microservices? + How to Consolidate & Scale Them

Segment
@preslavrachev can I have this in a form that I can inject directly into my veins?
@chrisg well, you can tattoo it for sure 😁
@preslavrachev twilio made the same thing a few years ago.