Hunting the mammoth in the modern age
summary
Argues that monolithic “mammoths” get replaced by microservices: small, few thousand lines of code services communicating over message queues or gRPC (protobuf), with .proto files generating cross‑language stubs and tests (Python used as example). Claims independence and replaceability matter more than buzzwordy architecture; treats microservices as a platform-building exercise (platform vs product) and ties deployment cadence to subscription models, referencing the Google vs Amazon platform discussion as a mindset shift.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:11Refactoring skills
- 1:51Microservices
- 2:37Cloud Computing
- 3:12RPC
- 4:26Unix Shell
- 5:20Product vs Platform
- 5:57Conclusion
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