Re:Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
by musingsole on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @10:27AM
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> Are there any case studies where microservices went well?
You answered your own question with Netflix. While you're right that it's not clear Netflix would've needed to develop their chaos monkey tooling and the like, it's not clear at all at that an equivalent system is possible as a monolith. Even if a monolithic Netflix system were technically possible, it's not clear if a monolithic system would be organizationally feasible either (Conway's Law)
Re:Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
by dx034 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @12:26PM
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Why wouldn't it be possible? It doesn't mean you can't modularize the application. And scaling can also work well for monoliths. I don't see how Netflix' service (browsing the catalog, serving content, reencoding videos) can't be done in a monolith.
You answered your own question with Netflix. While you're right that it's not clear Netflix would've needed to develop their chaos monkey tooling and the like, it's not clear at all at that an equivalent system is possible as a monolith. Even if a monolithic Netflix system were technically possible, it's not clear if a monolithic system would be organizationally feasible either (Conway's Law)