Summary of UBER lessons on scaling microservices

I just watched that amazing videos from Matt Ranney Here are my takeaways and opinionated summary: Use RPC for service to service communications: gRPC seems to be a good way of tackling it Use many repositories Profiling should be unified: flamegraphs seem to be a good solution (Go profiling is great too) Premature optimization is bad but performance monitoring is crucial! Trace requests, keep context within all logs Log a lot, but only on a portion of your production architecture as logging can have a big cost....

September 30, 2016 · 1 min · Me