Developer Experience Lessons At Netflix

Netfix provides a great overview on how they operate a huge microservice, serverless stack, including:

• How effortless is the local development experience?
• Are deployment artifacts portable, easy to version and manage?
• What are the implications of increased development velocity
• Can fine-grained functions be composed rapidly with confidence?

Read part1 and part2.  

Issues with Large Scale Microservices

Issues with Large Scale Microservices

• Complexity
• A new feature request modifies multiple services, coordination for
• API
• Protocols
• Development schedule
• Dependency between services → exposing internals
• Running the whole system locally is problematic for developers → setup
• Service Communication
• Direct
• Message middle-ware
• Production Database Access
• Duplicated database
• Write-read-trough 
• Write to a develop database
• Try to read from production database
• If data found → return
• If data not found → read from develop database