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May 2023
35m 58s

Prime Video Swaps Microservices for Mono...

Hussein Nasser
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<p>Prime video engineering team has posted a blog detailing how they moved their live stream monitoring service from microservices to a monolith reducing their cost by 90%, let us discuss this 0:00 Intro 2:00 Overview 10:35 Distributed System Overhead 21:30 From Microservices to Monolith 29:00 Scaling the Monolith 32:30 Takeaways https://www.primevideotec ... Show More
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