Arrested Development

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Yelp’s Transaction Platform breaks a 1.2 million line monolith into many services and shows what actually goes wrong: initial wins in deployment speed give way to API creep and tangled coupling, tests that don’t cover distributed failure modes, and surprising operational bugs (one datacenter’s timings are ten times worse, causing partner 504s). Concrete fixes include Swagger specs plus bravado and pyramid Swagger for client/server validation, comprehensive logging into the ELK stack, and last_alert for actionable monitoring and alerts.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:38About Scott
3. 3:14Microservices vs Monolith
4. 5:25Monolith Decoupling
5. 9:13Problems with Microservices
6. 10:57Outline
7. 11:27Python monoliths
8. 13:26Swagger
9. 16:13Swagger Automation
10. 18:23Lessons
11. 19:37Understanding Systems
12. 21:25The ELK Stack
13. 23:38How Does This Help
14. 24:46Flexible Alerting
15. 25:39Lessons Learned
16. 26:33Summary
17. 28:26Questions

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