Cloud Native Architecture: Monoliths or Microservices? - Goutham Veeramachaneni & Edward Welch

Cloud Native Architecture: Monoliths or Microservices? - Goutham Veeramachaneni & Edward Welch, Grafana Labs

Microservices are the rage right now and for very good reasons. But microservices are not without drawbacks, requiring a complicated configuration and deployment, increasing the barrier to entry for both developers and users alike. This poor user experience can slow the rate of adoption for a project and hinder developers. There is a solution to this problem seeing a lot of success. A single binary app which can act as a monolith but can also be scaled as microservices. Thanos being a great example, where the kickstart is super simple yet can be scaled out as required. The Loki project was patterned after a similar model and we’ve since re-architected Cortex as well. In the talk we will explore how an application can be architected to be both a monolith and microservices, improving both adoption and ease of use while still allowing to scale as a cloud native microservices application.

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Making development path easy gives great returns! Being able to run things locally and have total control takes out so much of complexity but teams rarely focus on that.
Thanks for the talk, it was super helpful.