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Amazon made headlines in early 2023 when its Prime Video service abandoned microservices in favor of a monolithic application. The company credited the move with a 90% cost savings. This is just one ...

The industry has been so focused on solving the integration problem that it has ignored the failure mode problem.

In the red corner, weighing in with independent scalability and distributed complexity: microservices! In the blue corner, the reigning legacy champion, with its infamous deployment challenges: the ...

Architectural strategy has become one of the most consequential choices for software-driven organizations. While large enterprises deploy complex systems built on microservices, startups consistently ...

Spurred by cloud adoption, many monolithic IT systems have morphed into distributed solutions based on service-based architectures, but as with all such IT transformations, the backlash has begun and ...

Amazon's Prime Video tech team sparked a vigorous debate about serverless computing after switching the video service to a monolithic architecture. Bucking the ...