Beyond Serverless and Monolithic: Build What Your Business Truly Needs
👀 If you've been intrigued by the headline about the Prime Video team reducing their cloud spending by 90% after moving from a distributed microservices architecture to a monolithic application, it's worth taking a closer look before jumping to conclusions.💡 To start with, there is no such thing as a “perfect architecture design”, any battle-tested architecture design is a compromise of many considerations for its given situation. It's easy for monolithic supporters to overlook the significant benefits that serverless architecture can bring, just as serverless advocates can gloss over the trade-offs and penalties that come with it, known as the "fallacies of distributed computing." More importantly, "Serverless First" approach doesn't mean "Serverless Only", microservices are not the only answer to everything, don’t let serverless be that only sledgehammer in your toolbox. Architecture design is a complex decision-making process and is...