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Moving to Microservices at SoundCloud with Lukasz Plotnicki

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“You can have a monolith, and it can be a perfectly good thing.”

Monoliths versus microservices – the architectural debate continues across the internet. SoundCloud is a popular music company that experienced the rapid development benefits of a monolith, as well as the long-term technical debt. That technical debt has since been relieved by a move towards microservices. In this episode of Software Engineering Daily, Lukasz joins Jeff to talk about the realities of moving from a monolith to a microservices architecture, and walks through the lessons learned at SoundCloud.

Lukasz Plotnicki is a consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks, which helps clients address their software development challenges and needs.

Questions
  • What are the application requirements of SoundCloud?
  • Is there something about Rails that lends towards apps becoming monolithic?
  • How did SoundCloud gradually ease into using microservice architecture?
  • How did the variety of front-end interfaces affect SoundCloud’s monolithic architecture?
  • What is the difference between a BFF and a microservice?
  • What are the downsides of a BFF implementation?
  • What are the lessons the SoundCloud case study has taught you about software architecture?
    • Links
    • SoundCloud
    • BFF @ SoundCloud
    • Thoughtworks
    • Monolithic application
    • How we ended up with microservices
    • The Strangler Pattern
    • Bounded Context
    • Domain-driven design
    • Lukasz on Twitter

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