Nearly four years ago, Hootsuite ran on a single monolithic codebase deployed on a fleet of AWS EC2 instances. Now, this functionality has been split up and delegated to over 120 services, which are deployed as containers on Kubernetes. Improving the tooling needed to build and deploy such a large number of services has come with a lot of challenges. Over the years, robust build and deploy scaffolding has been put in place to make it easy to generate and ship new services to production.
The core of this scaffolding is the Hootsuite service skeleton. Given a set of inputs…
At Hootsuite, over 120 microservices support the core dashboard product, of which the majority run on Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This is an incredible change from three years ago, when the majority of the code at Hootsuite was running in a monolith codebase alongside a few microservices, all of which were hosted on EC2. It’s been a long and challenging journey; being on the bleeding edge often meant going it alone. This article documents this journey, outlining the steps taken along the way.
Whenever possible, this article will provide links to the source material for relevant concepts to make…
Shelby Moore
Staff Software Developer on the Compute Platform team at Hootsuite
