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QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

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306 points carlos-menezes | 1 comments | 19 Oct 24 21:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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tjoff ◴[20 Oct 24 06:21 UTC] No.41893322[source]▶
Industry will do absolutely anything, except making lightweight sites.

We had instant internet in the late 90s, if you were lucky enough to have a fast connection. The pages were small and there were barely any javascript. You can still find such fast loading lightweight pages today and the experience is almost surreal.

It feels like the page has completely loaded before you even released the mousebutton.

If only the user experience were better it might have been tolerable but we didn't get that either.

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pjmlp ◴[20 Oct 24 07:31 UTC] No.41893625[source]▶
Lightweight sites don't make for shinny CVs.

Even on the backend, now the golden goose is to sell microservices, via headless SaaS products connected via APIs, that certainly is going to perform.

https://macharchitecture.com/

However if those are the shovels people are going to buy, then those are the ones we have to stockpile, so is the IT world.

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Zanfa ◴[20 Oct 24 08:06 UTC] No.41893767[source]▶
My feeling is that the microservice fad has passed… for now. But I’m sure it’ll be resurrected in a few years with a different name.
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1. _heimdall ◴[20 Oct 24 14:42 UTC] No.41895667[source]▶
I've come across quite a few job postings in the last could weeks looking for senior engineers with experience migrating monoliths to micro services. Not sure if the fad is still here or if those companies are just slow to get onboard.

There are still good uses for micro services. Specific services can gain a lot from it, the list of those types of services/apps is pretty short in my experience though.