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0 pointsbdangubic6mo ago0 comments

every complex domain and “at scale” is just a bunch of simple things in disguise… our industry is just terrible in general about breaking things down. we sort of know this so we came up with shit things like “microservices” but you spend sufficient time in the industry (almost three decades for me) and you won’t find a single place that has microservices architecture than you haven’t wished was a monolith :) we are just terrible at this… there is no complex domain, it is just a good excuse we use to justify things

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zhouzhao6mo ago

Oh boy, this is the best example of "I have been doing it the same way for 30 years" I have ever seen in the world wild web

fijiaarone6mo ago

Google and Amazon were doing things at roughly the same scale* 20 years ago on slower hardware and less of it.

* They might be serving twice as much (but definitely not ten times as much) as they were in 2005 but mostly that scales horizontally very easily.

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zhouzhao6mo ago

Oh boy, this is the best example of "I have been doing it the same way for 30 years" I have ever seen in the world wild web

fijiaarone6mo ago

Google and Amazon were doing things at roughly the same scale* 20 years ago on slower hardware and less of it.

* They might be serving twice as much (but definitely not ten times as much) as they were in 2005 but mostly that scales horizontally very easily.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse