🔧Modular services provide fault isolation, performance optimization, and security boundaries.
🗺️Sharding partitions data space, enabling distribution, replication, and scalability.
🍰Layered services abstract common capabilities, promoting reusability and reducing complexity.
👷♀️Development practices that separate domain logic from non-domain concerns allow for testability and robustness.
🏗️Combining architectural building blocks leads to simple, scalable, and effective large-scale systems.
What is the benefit of modular services?
—Modular services provide fault isolation, performance optimization, and security boundaries.
How does sharding help with scalability?
—Sharding partitions data space, enabling distribution, replication, and scalability.
What are layered services?
—Layered services abstract common capabilities, promoting reusability and reducing complexity.
Why is separating domain logic important?
—Separating domain logic from non-domain concerns allows for testability and robustness.
How can architectural building blocks simplify large-scale systems?
—Combining architectural building blocks leads to simple, scalable, and effective large-scale systems.
00:05Introduction to the talk on the unreasonable effectiveness of making simple changes in architecture.
01:42Examples of companies like eBay and Amazon that have gone through multiple iterations of their architecture.
08:08Exploration of simple components in architecture, including modular services and sharding.
15:00Discussion on layered services and the benefits of separating domain logic from non-domain concerns.
23:20Introduction to development practices that allow for simple changes in architecture.
33:00Case studies and examples of how simple changes in architecture have led to scalability, simplicity, and effectiveness.
