We Need to Discuss the Microservices Madness - Scaling with Common Sense
I stumbled upon this interesting article titled Scaling with common sense, the author goes into different topics of the bad practices of pre-mature scaling and optimization specifically with regards to microservices and k8. Let us discuss
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https://zerodha.tech/blog/scaling-with-common-sense/
0:00 Intro
3:00 Comparisons are almost always meaningless.
5:30 Scaling starts with well built software.
8:50 Eat healthy and exercise daily.
10:15 KISS, don’t be afraid, and boring better cool.
12:00 The bottleneck is almost always the database.
13:40 RDBMS works, almost always.
15:00 Everyon…
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Chapters (23)
Intro
3:00
Comparisons are almost always meaningless.
5:30
Scaling starts with well built software.
8:50
Eat healthy and exercise daily.
10:15
KISS, don’t be afraid, and boring better cool.
12:00
The bottleneck is almost always the database.
13:40
RDBMS works, almost always.
15:00
Everyone forgets to index.
17:30
Don’t use an RDBMS. What?
19:40
Networking/IO is really hard. Network as little as possible.
21:20
Connections are hard. Connect little, pool much.
25:00
Latency is THE metric.
26:10
The Internet is the Wild Wild West.
28:40
Caching is a silver bullet, almost.
29:00
Dumb caching is best caching.
29:40
Some application state may not be bad.
31:20
HTTP APIs can be E-Tagged (304) too.
34:12
Allocation is expensive.
37:40
Multi-threading and concurrency are necessary, but hard.
38:30
Some technologies are genuinely slow. Use fast technologies.
39:30
Scaling horizontally, vertically, and “enterprisely”.
40:30
Human impediment.
42:20
My Thoughts on Microservices
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