Changing Lanes: How Lyft is Migrating 100+ Frontend Microservices to Next.js

4 · Lyft · Nov. 30, 2020, 6:23 p.m.
Photo by Joey Kyber on UnsplashBy Josh Callender and Andrew HaoIntroductionIn 2019, Lyft’s frontend architecture needed a reckoning. We were growing quickly as a company, and new teams were creating new software systems daily. At that point in time, we were generating new frontend services from a service generator template — complete with a copy of our bespoke, zero-config frontend build platform. Having such an easy means of service creation led to an explosion of new services with heterogeneou...