All articles tagged with #serverless
Cloudflare has acquired the entire engineering team of Deno, the creator of the popular JavaScript runtime. This move ends independent development of the Deno runtime after one year of support and shuts down Deno Deploy within six months. The integration consolidates serverless JavaScript tooling under Cloudflare’s Workers ecosystem and introduces a new platform called 'celld' for distributed applications.
An Amazon Prime Video team's case study has suggested that moving from a microservices architecture to a monolith can reduce infrastructure costs by over 90%. The team initially created a solution with distributed components orchestrated by AWS Step Functions, but it turned out to be a bottleneck. The team then packed all the components into a single process, eliminating the need for S3. The solution now runs on EC2 and ECS, with a lightweight orchestration layer to distribute customer requests. The paper is a refreshingly honest look at how to reduce cost with a simplified architecture, as well as a case study in willingness to change track.