The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

Prime Video Swaps Microservices for Monolith: 90% Cost Reduction

May 6, 2023

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Episode notes

Introduction

3min

The Importance of Prime Video

3min

How to Monitor and Decode Streams on Amazon

3min

The Distributed Architecture of Audio Video Quality Inspection

3min

How to Monitor Streams on a Service

2min

How to Monitor a Video Stream on Your App

3min

The Lambda Orchestration Portal

2min

The Bottleneck of Serverless Media Service Conversion

3min

The Cost of a Serverless Lambda Function

3min

10.

The Difference Between ECS VM and ECS Task

2min

11.

The High Level Architecture of a Monitoring Service

2min

12.

The Problem With Scaling Detectors Vertically

2min

13.

The Future of Media Conversion

3min

14.

The Advantages of Microservices and Serverless Components

4min

Prime video engineering team has posted a blog detailing how they moved their live stream monitoring service from microservices to a monolith reducing their cost by 90%, let us discuss this 0:00 Intro 2:00 Overview 10:35 Distributed System Overhead 21:30 From Microservices to Monolith 29:00 Scaling the Monolith 32:30 Takeaways https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90 Fundamentals of Backend Engineering Design patterns udemy course (link redirects to udemy with coupon) https://backend.husseinnasser.com

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