The Grug Brained Developer (2022)

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

I'm convinced that some people don't know any other way to break down a system into smaller parts. To these people, if it's not exposed as a API call it's just some opaque blob of code that cannot be understood or reused.

I swear I'm not making this up; a guy at my current client needed to join two CSV files. A one off thing for some business request. He wrote a REST api in Java, where you get the merged csv after POSTing your inputs.

I must scream but I'm in a vacuum. Everyone is fine with this.

(Also it takes a few seconds to process a 500 line test file and runs for ten minutes on the real 20k line input.)

I mean, it would be faster to just import them into an in-memory sqlite database, run a `union all` query and then dump it to a csv...

That's still probably the wrong way to do it, but 10 minutes for a 20k line file? That seems like poor engineering in the most basic sense.