Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs

This. All trends are cyclical. Microservices have a purpose. Monoliths have a purpose. They are not mutually exclusive. One is the path to the other but there may also be resets along the way. I spent 10 years doing microservices and now I'm back to a monolith. It's a refreshing change but it's also a project in its infancy. Breaking that out over time will only happen as and when needed.

Re: Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing costs

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Post by ikiris » Thu, May 04, 2023, 6:19 AM UTC

Sending video frames between services is expensive, also doing per state transition hosting on things doing state transitions multiple times per second in a single stream is also expensive...

Like, did they even think about cost when designing this the first time?

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Post by ad-astra » Thu, May 04, 2023, 6:19 AM UTC

Storing individual frames in S3??? Insanity! Their initial distributed architecture is unbelievable.

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Post by bberrry » Thu, May 04, 2023, 6:19 AM UTC

I'd be surprised if this doesn't get taken down as it casts AWS lambda in an unfavorable light (and rightly so). That's the impression I have of Amazon's leadership but maybe I'm wrong.

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Post by pbd » Thu, May 04, 2023, 6:19 AM UTC

samwillis wrote: post #4

Next they will transition to on premises hardware from the cloud to save another 90%.... oh wait...

lol. Amazon is literally where microservices became mainstream.

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Post by bawolff » Thu, May 04, 2023, 6:21 AM UTC

I'm pretty convinced that microservices are one of those things that make sense 5% of the time and the other 95% is cargo culting.