Microservices

topic on 7 shows · 12 statements across 11 episodes

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May: AI architecture will mirror software transition to microservices
“Most companies start with a monolithic code base, everything in one repo and one giant thing. And then they start to parse off the pieces that need to be optimized and make them microservices. And I mean, it's, that's how businesses are going to go with AI as …”
Rob May Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 21:27 Why the 7th Biggest Player in a Huge Market Beats the Winner in a Small One
ACQUIRED Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Oct 2024
Gilbert: Facebook Rejected Microservices for a Monolithic Codebase
“So they structured themselves in a way that encouraged flexibility of engineers, and they really broke from the tide of microservices in this era. They had one monolithic code base that everyone worked out of.”
Ben Gilbert Oct 28, 2024 ▶ 3:33:04 Meta (Audio) · Acquired
IN DEPTH Insight
Elliott-McCrea: Microservices are often proposed to avoid talking to coworkers
“I think that we see over and over again, technical solutions proposed around the idea of, I don't want to talk to my coworkers. I think microservices is like the canonical example of this, but we see it in all different ways.”
Kellan Elliott-McCrea Aug 17, 2023 ▶ 29:27 How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
NO PRIORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Palantir operates 550 microservices released multiple times daily
“We have 550 microservices. We're releasing multiple times a day for each one of these services.”
Shyam Sankar Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 9:34 No Priors Ep. 25 | With Palantir's CTO Shyam Sankar
ACQUIRED Assertion Contradicted
Rosenthal: A9 search pushed Amazon to adopt a microservices architecture
“The other incredibly impactful thing that comes out of A-Nine and search and improving search on DM, Amazon.com website is that really is one of the catalysts that pushes the company to transition from a monolith software architecture to microservices, indepen…”
David Rosenthal Aug 16, 2022 ▶ 2:59:59 Amazon.com · Acquired
MAD Insight
Narayan: Apache Kafka is essential for building and operating microservices
“It has been to, in my opinion, a key enabler of microservices. I think it's pretty difficult to build and operate a decentralized set of microservices without first adopting something like Kafka in your organization to just move the data between all of these v…”
Arjun Narayan Mar 15, 2021 ▶ 4:25 Fireside Chat: Arjun Narayan (Founder & CEO, Materialize) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
a16z Assertion Supported
Humble: Microservices and Kubernetes do not guarantee high IT performance
“Implementing those technologies does not give you those outcomes we talked about. We actually looked at people doing mainframe stuff. You can achieve these results with mainframes. Equally, you can use the, you know, Kubernetes and, you know, Docker and micros…”
Jez Humble Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:29 a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps
a16z Prediction Held up
Mariotti: Enterprise transition to microservices will take ten years
“At an enterprise level, you know, 99.9, they're still monolithic, so it's more a 10 years transition that we'll see, and what Netflix did, it will happen to Coca-Cola, to McDonald's, so there's a lot of value to be unlocked and to help companies doing this tra…”
Augusto Marietti Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:00 a16z Podcast | The API Economy -- The Why, What, and How
a16z Insight
Cockcroft: Lower network overhead enables microservices 1/100th the size of SOA
“On relatively slow CPUs compared to what we have today on relatively slow networks, we were processing big fat lumps of XML and passing it around, and we were really only able to break the application into a few large chunks because the overhead of all of the …”
Adrian Cockcroft Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:22 a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
a16z Insight
Cockcroft: Microservices require shifting enterprises from project-based to product-based teams
“What you see with traditional enterprise siloed organizations is they're actually having to do a reorgan set up teams that own, that are responsible for services, and that's, it's somewhat unnatural for the way they're currently set up, but I'm seeing an incre…”
Adrian Cockcroft Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:05 a16z Podcast | All About Microservices
a16z Insight
Azhar: Microservice architectures allow targeted AI optimization without AGI
“In practical software architectures, we're starting to see the rise of microservices. What's nice about microservices are very, very cleanly defined systems. So you don't need generalized intelligence. You just need very specialized optimizations. And as our s…”
Azim Azhar Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:47 a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
SAASTR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adam Gross: SaaS companies over three years old are decomposing monolithic stacks
“If your company is more than three years old, your engineers are currently on a journey to take the application stack that you created, which was a classic web application stack, right? This is what Salesforce looks like under the hood in 1999. This is kind of…”
Adam Gross Jan 1, 2018 ▶ 7:30 Infrastructure for Non Devs: What CEOs Really Need to Know in 2017

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