AppHost: how Yandex organizes interaction of hundreds of microservices

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Yandex describes AppHost, an internal platform that coordinates interaction among hundreds of microservices. The talk explains how AppHost traces request composition end-to-end so engineers can inspect exactly which services and calls make up a request, how that visibility aids troubleshooting, and discusses benefits and drawbacks of their approach.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:31Service interaction problems
3. 6:30Scaling architecture challenges
4. 9:21Directed graph model
5. 12:58How AppHost works
6. 17:18Centralized processing benefits
7. 26:40AppHost limitations
8. 28:29Summary
9. 29:12Q&A

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