Scaling productivity on microservices at Lyft (Part 1)

Late in 2018, Lyft engineering completed decomposing our original PHP monolith into a collection of Python and Go microservices. A few years down the road, microservices had been largely successful in allowing teams to operate and ship services independently of one another. Separation of concerns that microservices brought about enabled us to experiment and deliver features faster–deploying hundreds of times each day–and provided us with the flexibility to use different programming languages whe...