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Microservices Are Bullsh*t (For Most of You)
You don't have Netflix's problems. You have 3 developers and a Postgres database.
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You don't have Netflix's problems. You have 3 developers and a Postgres database.
Reddit moved their comments system from Python to Go. The unglamorous reality of migration.
Netflix ripped out Kafka, Cassandra, and three cache layers. Because every cache is a lie.
Synchronous calls work until they don't. Then you need a message queue. Here's why.
The hidden state in your servers is why you can't just 'add more boxes'.
That abstraction layer you're building? You don't need it yet.
High throughput doesn't mean low latency. Often it means the opposite.
Partial failures, network lies, clock drift. Everything that makes distributed systems a nightmare.
API Gateway handles the outside chaos. Service mesh handles the inside chaos.