Friday 31st January, 2020 #
- eLoN mUsK rElEaSeS dOn’t DoUbT uR vIbE eDm MuSiC tRaCk
- Pretty epic HN thread on the monoliths article from earlier, some useful notes from people with experience with microservices
- Monoliths are the future - I personally quite like the "double monolith", one for the website and one for the api, but I think there are some really large deployments like AWS for instance, where using microservices makes a lot of sense, but it's tricky to pull off operationally because as the organisation changes shape, the code base needs to drastically change too, and probably a lot of teams just can't keep up, monoliths are more rigid but they don't crumble as easily
- Mailgun lowers free-tier API from 10k to 625 emails per month - This is pretty bad news for any early stage startups using Mailgun, without a decent free tier, it's impossible to get started because you can't even send out signup/welcome emails