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Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters - Jimmy Bogard

Jimmy Bogard presents a post-mortem of a real microservices migration that turned into a slow distributed monolith. He covers the modeling, development and production problems and how the team recovered.

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as an entertaining cautionary talk on microservice failures and Conway's law.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
NDC Conferences
Topic
microservice architecture failures
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.

  • [VIDEO] (39:00) Conway's law: Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. Jimmy's law: A broken, dysfunctional organization driven by meeting unhealthy goals and metrics will produce broken, dysfunctional systems. Inverse …

    tony-allan on Hacker News · 2018-11
    In Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters
  • It is such a weird feeling to come across a topic I haven't read on in a while, watch two videos on it out of random curiosity, hop on hackernews the next day, and get a recommendation for the exact same videos. I very much …

    ketzu on Hacker News · 2023-06
    In Make microservices look like monoliths

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