What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]

Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video] by rhizome on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @06:02PM (#12601705)

a better marginal return: it's often easier to work with abstract networking concerns across a system than it is to tease apart often implicit dependenicies in a monolithic deployment.

Do the complexities introduced not have a cost, i.e. are those marginal returns offset by the choice in the first place? Call it "platform debt."

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Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video] by duaneb on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @06:26PM (#12601850)

Oh they definitely do. It's just a different flavor and the debt scales differently. Ideally the debt amortizes across the services so you can solve a problem across multiple places. This is obviously really difficult to discuss or analyze without a specific scenario.

It's probably not worth discussing unless you're actively feeling either perf or coupling debt pressure.

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