Microservices
topic on 7 shows · 12 statements across 11 episodes
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12 statements about Microservices, every show
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 …”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”
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…”
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…”
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…”
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 …”
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…”
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…”
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…”