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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: 0.206s | 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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jiggawatts ◴[17 Jun 25 21:56 UTC] No.44304390[source]▶
I keep trying to explain this to tiny dev teams (1-2 people) that will cheerfully take a trivial web app with maybe five forms and split it up into “microservices” that share a database, an API Management layer, a queue for batch jobs to process “huge” volumes (megabytes) of data, an email notification system, an observablity platform (bespoke!) and then… and then… turn the trivial web forms into a SPA app because “that’s easier”.

Now I understand that “architecture” and “patterns” is a jobs program for useless developers. It’s this, or they’d be on the streets holding a sign saying “will write JavaScript for a sandwich”.

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someothherguyy ◴[17 Jun 25 22:09 UTC] No.44304502[source]▶
> Now I understand that “architecture” and “patterns” is a jobs program for useless developers.

Yet, developers are always using patterns and are thinking about architecture.

Here you are doing so too, a pattern, "form submission" and an architecture, "request-response".

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1. balamatom ◴[18 Jun 25 10:38 UTC] No.44308620[source]▶
A word and its meaning are usually antonyms.