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Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters - Jimmy Bogard

NDC Conferences · talk · Watch on YouTube

Software architecture & designDistributed systems

What it is

Jimmy Bogard presents a post-mortem of a real microservices migration that turned into a slow distributed monolith. He covers the modeling, development and production problems and how the team recovered.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as an entertaining cautionary talk on microservice failures and Conway's law.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Inverse Conway Maneuver: Design the organization you want, the architecture will follow, kicking and screaming.”

    Conway's law and inverse Conway maneuver at 39:00

    tony-allan, 2018-11 · Recommendation · in “Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters”

  2. “I also liked "Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters" but mostly for the entertainment value”

    Entertaining talk on microservice failures

    ketzu, 2023-06 · Recommendation · in “Make microservices look like monoliths”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: microservices, distributed monolith, conway's law, architecture, post-mortem

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