Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you switch to micro services?

Re:Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you sw... by _shadi on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:26AM (#18966839)

most of us had experience with traditional development only, so we had to adopt devops mentality to be really effective, the company had ~4 system engineers who were working on the monolith full-time, so we had to take care of the microservices we built ourselves.

by AWS services I meant things like cloudformation, packer, ansible, consul, the nitty-gritty of ELB, EC2, S3, docker, hardest part for me was IAM and vpc/subnets, dealing with multiple caches instead of a big one, also distributed sessions(in the end we got rid of sessions and used identifiers and a key-value store).

Jenkins jobs to deploy and test every single service on its own, and for deploying everything to a test environment and run integration tests.

UAT for testing all services on test environment.

There is much more than that but these are the things I remember from the top of my head.

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Re:Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you sw... by drbojingle on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @07:36AM (#18967796)

Sounds pretty complex! What are you making if you don't mind me asking?

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Re:Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you sw... by _shadi on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @10:59AM (#18969170)

I'm no longer at that company, I would rather not share more personal information, but the product was a sort of a marketplace implementation.

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Re:Ask HN: How many developers should you have before you sw... by drbojingle on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @06:45PM (#18974060)

That's cool, I'm not interested in personal info. I am curious how many developers were working on your back-end at any given time and how many services you had at any given time.

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