Lennart KoopmannMay 4, 2023

Amazon blog post in which they describe moving off serverless and to a good old monolith with a thought through architecture:

"Moving our service to a monolith reduced our infrastructure cost by over 90%. It also increased our scaling capabilities."

Looks like without the flow of free money, some teams are coming back to their senses.

https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90

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
Show threadTillMay 4, 2023
@_lennart guess they cut out the AWS solution architects from the decision making. 🤣
Show threadFlorian HolzhauerMay 4, 2023
@klimpong The general rule of thumb "Anyone saying technology A is always better than technology B is incompetent" served me well through my entire career - use cases are very different out there ;)
Show threadTillMay 4, 2023

@fh I don't disagree.

I guess this article hit too close to home. Currently auditing a company that's stuck in micro service hell on an AWS reference architecture. :P

Show threadFlorian HolzhauerMay 4, 2023

@klimpong Makes sense - my teams run entire AWS services using either architecture, and they both work fine for what they are doing. It is fun to look at the different tradeoffs :)

I really struggle with the blogpost though - if the initial setup they built already failed at 5% of the predicted load, some of the usual design reviews and discussions must have been horribly wrong, and I am not sure what perspective that gives on the rest on the post..

Show threadTillMay 4, 2023
@fh the hype cycle is real. So cool that we‘re both old enough to see yet another complete. 🫣
Show threadFlorian Holzhauer
@klimpong Are you now referring to Crypto or to LLM? ;)
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Show threadTillMay 5, 2023
@fh lol… still waiting on those. Kinda scared what web3 brings us next. 🙈