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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: 0.309s | 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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default-kramer ◴[17 Jun 25 22:57 UTC] No.44304916[source]▶
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.
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1. 9rx ◴[18 Jun 25 15:08 UTC] No.44310571[source]▶
To be fair, microservices is about breaking people down into smaller parts, with the idea of mirroring services found in the macro economy, but within the microcosm of a single business. In other words, a business is broken down into different teams that operate in isolation from each other, just as individual businesses do at the macro scale. Any technical outcomes from that are merely a result of Conway's Law.