Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Monolith, saves 90%

Re:Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Mon... by withinboredom on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:41AM (#35816118)

It's a learning experience. If everyone learns from it, it probably (most likely) won't happen again. Everyone learns how to write better tests. And, like I said, if you absolutely need to merge something right this exact second and it can't wait until someone disables the failing test (or you can't do it yourself for some reason), you can always merge it even with failing tests.

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Re:Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Mon... by __turbobrew__ on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:57PM (#35818552)

Average tenure at most companies is 2/3 years. You cannot rely on people learning from mistakes because there are always new people, you need to make it so they cannot make mistakes or if they make a mistake it isn’t going to block the whole company from executing.

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Re:Prime Video Abandons Serverless Distributed Stack for Mon... by withinboredom on Thursday May 04, 2023 @01:05PM (#35818693)

Organizations learn, it gets embedded in the culture, tooling, and automation. I shared some of the rules that were embedded in our organization via style guides and onboarding.

There were a thousand automated checks to prevent you from doing the same thing as someone else that caused downtime in the past. It was virtually impossible to commit code that deleted/truncated a table, for example.

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