Even Amazon Can't Make Sense of Serverless or Microservices
Percival noted that MySpace also spent hundreds of millions of dollars building its own content delivery network (CDN), whereas websites today would use a cloud network like Amazon’s
Stuart Dredge • MySpace – what went wrong: ‘The site was a massive spaghetti-ball mess’
The culture-clash conundrum works backwards, too: you can’t have otherwise full-on cloud native culture but not have microservices. If it takes you six months to deliver, you can’t be truly distributed. There is nothing to be gained in simply re-creating a monolith on the cloud — yet companies try do it all the time.
Pini Reznik • Cloud Native Transformation: Practical Patterns for Innovation
Each year, it took longer and longer to ship features to customers, and the risk of even small changes causing major problems kept growing. In 1998, developers could make changes and deploy them immediately. By 2004, pushing code changes into production required hours, even days, to be deployed.39 Teams were no longer able to solve Layer 1 problems
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