How to build a social network entirely on serverless

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Rebuilds a monolithic social network into an event-driven, serverless system using Kinesis, API Gateway, SQS, Redis, CloudSearch, BigQuery (or Athena + S3 + Glue), Neo4j and direct GCM/APNs pushes, proving it works in production: 200 Lambda functions handle search, timeline, recommendations and notifications, deployments jump to 100/month from 4–6, and operational compute cost for comparable work falls to about 5% of EC2. Timeline and search are rebuilt with streaming + SQS retries and deliverable features ship in days.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:52up to 30 mins for deployment deployment required downtime
3. 12:02build loosely coupled system through events
4. 20:28proxy requests from monolith to new service
5. 23:03mixpanel $3000/month
6. 37:30Oversight vs. Frictionless

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