Re:Amazon Prime Video’s Microservices Move Doesn’t Lead to a...
by faizshah on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:18AM
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This article is completely orthogonal to the discussion that was had online.
The point is doing everything in a single process vs having an external orchestrator and many task runners can be a costly decision at scale due to the way FaaS is priced (of course the FaaS version gives other benefits like fault tolerance). We have known this for decades its just a rehash of mainframe vs clustering the unique thing is the way serverless cloud products make this particularly painful due to pricing.
Also the original article was far less damning than the online discussion made it out to be. It basically amounted to “we built a system that was simple and cheap at small scale then we optimized cost once we had to scale it.”
Whether you want to pull hairs over if this fits your favorite thought leaders definition of monolith like this article is completely besides the point.
The point is doing everything in a single process vs having an external orchestrator and many task runners can be a costly decision at scale due to the way FaaS is priced (of course the FaaS version gives other benefits like fault tolerance). We have known this for decades its just a rehash of mainframe vs clustering the unique thing is the way serverless cloud products make this particularly painful due to pricing.
Also the original article was far less damning than the online discussion made it out to be. It basically amounted to “we built a system that was simple and cheap at small scale then we optimized cost once we had to scale it.”
Whether you want to pull hairs over if this fits your favorite thought leaders definition of monolith like this article is completely besides the point.