Arrested Development: surviving the awkward adolescence of a microservices-based application

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Yelp extracts a million-line Python monolith into dozens of microservices and finds coupling, API complexity, and test/deploy pain increase instead of disappearing. The team writes explicit Swagger specs, generates clients with bravado and servers with pyramid swagger, logs everything into Elasticsearch and Cabana, and runs alerts with a last alert. That tooling cuts incident diagnosis from days to minutes, forces intentional interfaces, and makes cross-language clients and API versioning tractable.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Yelp and team
2. 3:43The case for microservices
3. 5:58Challenges with service adoption
4. 11:25Case study on service decoupling
5. 20:10Defining explicit interfaces
6. 26:51Production monitoring and logs
7. 33:46Lessons and best practices
8. 36:26Q&A session

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