Re:Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Mon...
by kristopolous on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:56AM
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trying to using the actual software to accomplish these actual tasks. You're right though, that is the promise of the software - it doesn't deliver.
I wish I had infinite time to document all the issues. This isn't a small nuanced detailed thing - it falls deeply, systemically fundamentally short and in practice you still get the magical monolithic system it tried to kill but now with more obfuscation, complexity and a theatrical slight of hand to convince yourself it isn't that.
Instead of the server being configured for the monolithic app, it's now extensively and carefully configured for the myriad of containers, hostnames, configurations and connections of the containers running the microservice app.
It's in practice the same problem with a different costume.
The other promise of it being a collection of smaller constrained services running on tcp ports talking to each other ... that's nothing new. You've invented the idea of computer networks.
I wish I had infinite time to document all the issues. This isn't a small nuanced detailed thing - it falls deeply, systemically fundamentally short and in practice you still get the magical monolithic system it tried to kill but now with more obfuscation, complexity and a theatrical slight of hand to convince yourself it isn't that.
Instead of the server being configured for the monolithic app, it's now extensively and carefully configured for the myriad of containers, hostnames, configurations and connections of the containers running the microservice app.
It's in practice the same problem with a different costume.
The other promise of it being a collection of smaller constrained services running on tcp ports talking to each other ... that's nothing new. You've invented the idea of computer networks.