Wordnik: Migrating From a Monolythic Platform to Micro Services
The story of how Wordnik changed a monolithic platform to one based on Micro Services and the implications at the data layer (MongoDB):
To address this, we made a significant architectural shift. We have split our application stack into something called Micro Services — a term that I first heard from the folks at Netflix. […] This translates to the data tier as well. We have low cost servers, and they work extremely well when they stay relatively small. Make them too big and things can go sour, quickly. So from the data tier, each service gets its own data cluster. This keeps services extremely focused, compact, and fast — there’s almost no fear that some other consumer of a shared data tier is going to perform some ridiculously slow operation which craters the runtime performance. Have you ever seen what happens when a BI tool is pointed at the runtime database? This is no different.
Original title and link: Wordnik: Migrating From a Monolythic Platform to Micro Services (©myNoSQL)
via: http://blog.wordnik.com/with-software-small-is-the-new-big
