Pros and Cons of Microservice Architecture at HeadHunter

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HeadHunter moved from a large monolith to extracting microservices and over several years evaluated the results. The talk weighs concrete pros and cons of microservice architecture—naming increased modularity but added complexity in development, deployment, and operations—and compares issues that arise with vertical versus horizontal splitting of services.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:12Author’s microservice experience
3. 4:43Microservice architecture pros
4. 7:30Distributed systems problems
5. 10:17Network challenges impact
6. 14:28Timeouts and fault tolerance
7. 17:01Deployment ceremony
8. 20:28Monolith decomposition
9. 24:00Independent service degradation
10. 27:12Scaling and infrastructure
11. 30:02Monolith decomposition best practices
12. 33:17Summary and recommendations
13. 33:39Q&A

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