The internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack, yet it doesn’t survive a DNS misconfiguration. We can blame centralization, but look deeper: any distributed architecture is subject to forces that push it in conflicting directions.
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We noticed in our architecture courses that many developers that are moving from monoliths to distributed systems fail to realize that they are moving into a completely new realm, where other rules apply than those they know. In this video, we look at the 8 Fallacies of Distributed Systems and at the CAP theorem to
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The debate of microservices vs monoliths has been reignited by a blog post from the Amazon Prime Video Quality Analysis Team, detailing a case study of improved scalability and reduced operational costs after switching from a serverless architecture to a monolith. So are monoliths better than microservices or serverless? Does Amazon do things differently than
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