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The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

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1087 points smartmic | 1 comments | 17 Jun 25 20:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.259s | source
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anthomtb ◴[17 Jun 25 21:05 UTC] No.44303941[source]▶
So many gems in here but this one about microservices is my favorite:

grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too

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fellatio ◴[18 Jun 25 00:00 UTC] No.44305300[source]▶
Unfortunately it is useful to do this for many other reasons!
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1. chamomeal ◴[18 Jun 25 04:15 UTC] No.44306605[source]▶
Unfortunately indeed. I lament the necessity of microservices at my current job. It’s just such a silver bullet for so many scaling problems.

The scaling problems we face could probably be solved by other solutions, but the company is primed and ready to chuck functionality into new microservices. That’s what all our infrastructure is set up to do, and it’s what inevitably happens every time