We Need to Stop the Microservices Madness - Scaling with Common Sense

I stumbled upon this interesting article titled Scaling with common sense, the author goes into different topics of the bad practices of pre-mature scaling and optimization specifically with regards to microservices and k8. Let us discuss Resources https://zerodha.tech/blog/scaling-with-common-sense/ 0:00 Intro 3:00 Comparisons are almost always meaningless. 5:30 Scaling starts with well built software. 8:50 Eat healthy and exercise daily. 10:15 KISS, don’t be afraid, and boring better cool. 12:00 The bottleneck is almost always the database. 13:40 RDBMS works, almost always. 15:00 Everyone forgets to index. 17:30 Don’t use an RDBMS. What? 19:40 Networking/IO is really hard. Network as little as possible. 21:20 Connections are hard. Connect little, pool much. 25:00 Latency is THE metric. 26:10 The Internet is the Wild Wild West. 28:40 Caching is a silver bullet, almost. 29:00 Dumb caching is best caching. 29:40 Some application state may not be bad. 31:20 HTTP APIs can be E-Tagged (304) too. 34:12 Allocation is expensive. 37:40 Multi-threading and concurrency are necessary, but hard. 38:30 Some technologies are genuinely slow. Use fast technologies. 39:30 Scaling horizontally, vertically, and “enterprisely”. 40:30 Human impediment. 42:20 My Thoughts on Microservices 🎙️Listen to the Backend Engineering Podcast https://husseinnasser.com/podcast 🏭 Backend Engineering Videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQUNnO4p00ua_C5mKTfldiYT 💾 Database Engineering Videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQXjD0HOzN7P2tgzu7scWpl2 🏰 Load Balancing and Proxies Videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQVMeBmWI2AhxULWEeo7AaMC 🏛️ Software Archtiecture Videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQXNP6mQchJVP3S-3oKGEuw9 📩 Messaging Systems https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQnljOFTspQVcumYRWE2w9kVxxIXy_AMo Become a Member https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ML5xP23TOWKUcc-oAE_Eg/join Support me on PayPal https://bit.ly/33ENps4 Stay Awesome, Hussein