Within our product ecosystem lives a large monolithic application that is responsible for the majority of functionality that our customers use every day. Like most technology companies that have undergone sustained, rapid growth
You're probably familiar with horizontally scaling stateless applications. Most likely running containerized microservices under the hood, powered by a database engine, and serving traffic through a load balancer. A fairly standard recipe for
Picture the scene:
It's 10:30pm on Christmas Eve. You're wrapped up warm in this year's hilarious
Christmas jumper (it got plenty of laughs from people at the office), you've had
just enough
