New Video: BuzzFeed Moves From Monolith to Microservices with NGINX Plus
New Video: BuzzFeed Moves From Monolith to Microservices with NGINX Plus BuzzFeed is a global media company that produces and distributes original news, entertainment, and video across its sites, mobile apps, and other digital platforms. To serve its global audience, BuzzFeed handles more than 7 billion content views every month. This impressive reach presents an exciting opportunity for BuzzFeed engineers to scale their application. Previously, BuzzFeed had one large monolithic application. Over the past year, BuzzFeed gradually moved to microservices, which made it more difficult to route URLs to the correct backend application. BuzzFeed’s IT team started off routing traffic in the CDN and found that the configuration there became more and more complicated. They needed a smarter way of routing pages to their applications. Watch the video with John Cleveley, Senior Engineering Manager at BuzzFeed, to learn how BuzzFeed [ more… ]