The way folks oversimplify takeaways is just... 🤦♂️
All the chat about the Prime Video thing, then "serverless bad", "microservices bad", "monolith good", ... 🤡
It's not a matter of one being bad and the other good. All are valid approaches, be it a monolith, a microservice or something in between, depends on each situation.
@joaofbantunes as someone who worked on Prime Video and now works in ECS - I can’t agree more. Their architecture made a ton of sense in the environment they built it (move fast, multiple teams, low ops).
They weren’t optimizing for lowest cost/month - they were optimizing engineering time and org structure (and experimenting and moving fast).
I’m delighted they’re using ECS, but that’s just because they changed what their focus was 🤷♂️
Better a rearchitecture than never launching.
João Antunes
David Killmon