Moving from microservices back to a monolith saved Amazon Prime Video 90% on infrastructure costs!
Holly Cummins breaks down why architectural trends always come with hidden trade-offs - and why blindly chasing the shiny new paradigm will cost you.
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Holly Cummins discusses why "nothing is new under the sun" in tech. She maps historical architectural tradeoffs to modern cloud, microservices, and AI hype cycles. She connects financial debt (post-ZIRP) and technical debt to epistemic and sleep debt, showing engineering leaders how to navigate shifts in assumptions, embrace sustainability, and revive proven engineering disciplines.
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