Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices

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remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture

"We designed our initial solution as a distributed system using serverless components... In theory, this would allow us to scale each service component independently. However, the way we used some components caused us to hit a hard scaling limit at around 5% of the expected load."

WS-Deathstar

The Majestic Monolith

put it beautifully in 2020

"We’re gonna break [the monolith] up and somehow find the engineering discipline we never had in the first place... Now you went from writing bad code to building bad infrastructure.   Because it drives a lot of new spend, it drives a lot of new hiring… So a lot of people get addicted to all the flourishment of money, and marketing, and it’s just a lot of buzz that people are attaching their assignment to, when honestly it’s not gonna necessarily solve their problem."

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remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture. "We designed our initial solution as a distributed system using serverless components... In theory, this would allow us to scale each service component independently. However, the way we used some components caused us to hit a hard scaling limit at around 5% of the expected load." WS-Deathstar. The Majestic Monolith. put it beautifully in 2020. "We’re gonna break [the monolith] up and somehow find the engineering discipline we never had in the first place... Now you went from writing bad code to building bad infrastructure.   Because it drives a lot of new spend, it drives a lot of new hiring… So a lot of people get addicted to all the flourishment of money, and marketing, and it’s just a lot of buzz that people are attaching their assignment to, when honestly it’s not gonna necessarily solve their problem."