Microservices

Patterns and lessons for designing and operating microservices.

Engineering MAY 7, 2023 2 Min Read

Amazon Prime Video's Monolith Pivot

Amazon Prime Video didn’t prove microservices are broken. This case study explains why a video quality service moved to a monolith, cutting costs by 90%+, and what it teaches about choosing architecture based on workload, scale, and operational complexity.

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Team reviewing a tablet together in a dim office, titled "Ambassador Design Pattern"

Engineering DEC 18, 2022 7 Min Read

Ambassador Design Pattern in Microservices

Learn how the Ambassador design pattern improves microservices with centralized routing, service discovery, sharding support, and safe request splitting for experiments.

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X-ray style render of a car chassis with wiring exposed, titled "Microservices Chassis Pattern"

Engineering DEC 11, 2022 10 Min Read

Microservices with the Chassis Pattern

Explore the power of the Microservice Chassis pattern in building scalable, secure, and reliable microservices. Learn key functionalities, best practices, and real-world use cases.

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Split illustration: workers building a stone monolith versus a team operating modular microservice towers

Engineering DEC 4, 2022 8 Min Read

Monolith vs Microservices: How to Decide

Monolith vs microservices is the wrong question. What DORA, Netflix, Segment, Stack Overflow and Shopify show: pick the boundary your team can actually operate.

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