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Re:Faster, cheaper, and better: A story of breaking a monolith by seperman on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @06:27PM (#20464674)
The performance gains of the API were not the by-product of cutting into micro-services. Basically this article is about "We had some issues with the monolith, we cut it into micro-services and also did these other changes along the way that saved us money and gave us performance boost. Changes that we could have done in the monolith but they were less risky and easier to do in the micro-service in comparison to doing them in the monolith."
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Re:Faster, cheaper, and better: A story of breaking a monolith by mattmanser on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @07:54PM (#20465280)
It's titled faster, cheaper, better:... microservices, implying they were all due to splitting into microservices. But as usual it turns out refactoring was the saviour and microservices achieved jack-squat apart from having something nice to put on his CV.
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Re:Faster, cheaper, and better: A story of breaking a monolith by seperman on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @08:31PM (#20465485)
Lol, Mirco-service architecture is a vehicle that can make it easier to achieve those goals. It is not a black or white solution. There are pros and cons.
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