Coach Align

The new pricing model Algolia introduced really sealed the deal for us on this one - much closer to pay-as-you-go. And didn't want to spend time learning more about hosting/optimizing Elasticsearch when that isn't our core business problem - would much rather pay others to solve that problem for us.

There is definitely a learning curve to working with Lambda vs a more traditional containerized solution, but my experience has been that the extra upfront work is worth it for all the built-in things you get. Makes operating our stack a breeze, and completely removes a whole swatch of concerns (OS security patches, etc.) that AWS handles for us.

Thundra's been great for helping us visualize data flow through our event-driven architecture, and has been key in helping us monitor overall application help and troubleshoot issues that have come up. I especially like the ease of configuring the Lambda instrumentation via their serverless plugin.

Have a few simple pub-sub needs in the application to separate out core pieces of logic and make the whole thing more event-driven. Will be looking into Event Bridge in the future to take advantage of the built-in replayability.