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Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)... Maybe 1 person can't make twitter by hi

Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)... Maybe 1 person can't make twitter by himself, but I think the necessary number is much closer to 1 than it is to 4,100

bdcravens 10y ago
Recently listened to DHH's Software Engineering Radio interview, and his statement about teams of 3 developers bragging about their 4 microservices really stuck out to me.
- sanderjd 10y ago
  We seem to be in an era of microservice dissing. It reminds me a lot of the recent era of monoservice dissing. Just an observation.
  - thesimpsons1022 10y ago
    everything in the world is susceptible to trends. especially in the tech world we tend to embrace concepts and take them too far. we then realize we took it too far and adjust too far to the other side like a pendulum. As usual, somewhere in the middle is best.
- Arcaire 10y ago
  Do you happen to have a link to that? I'm interested to hear it.
  - jdex 10y ago
    Haven't listened to it yet, but it seems like this is the mentioned episode http://www.se-radio.net/2016/06/se-radio-episode-261-david-heinemeier-hansson-on-the-state-of-rails-monoliths-and-more/ http://www.se-radio.net/2016/06/se-radio-episode-261-david-h...
- thrillgore 10y ago
  It just seems easier now to reinvent the wheel 500 times as opposed to fixing it the first time. It may just be agile thinking.
tomc1985 10y ago
>Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)... This! So much of modern development looks like a jobs program. Then one steps back and looks at SV development in general, and realizes that 95% of their engineering staff is redundant. Worse, are these asshole companies crowding out the H-1B system with all these extra positions?

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Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)... Maybe 1 person can't make twitter by hi

by alexandercrohde 10y ago

bdcravens 10y ago
Recently listened to DHH's Software Engineering Radio interview, and his statement about teams of 3 developers bragging about their 4 microservices really stuck out to me.
- sanderjd 10y ago
  We seem to be in an era of microservice dissing. It reminds me a lot of the recent era of monoservice dissing. Just an observation.
  - thesimpsons1022 10y ago
    everything in the world is susceptible to trends. especially in the tech world we tend to embrace concepts and take them too far. we then realize we took it too far and adjust too far to the other side like a pendulum. As usual, somewhere in the middle is best.
- Arcaire 10y ago
  Do you happen to have a link to that? I'm interested to hear it.
  - jdex 10y ago
    Haven't listened to it yet, but it seems like this is the mentioned episode http://www.se-radio.net/2016/06/se-radio-episode-261-david-heinemeier-hansson-on-the-state-of-rails-monoliths-and-more/ http://www.se-radio.net/2016/06/se-radio-episode-261-david-h...
- thrillgore 10y ago
  It just seems easier now to reinvent the wheel 500 times as opposed to fixing it the first time. It may just be agile thinking.
tomc1985 10y ago
>Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)... This! So much of modern development looks like a jobs program. Then one steps back and looks at SV development in general, and realizes that 95% of their engineering staff is redundant. Worse, are these asshole companies crowding out the H-1B system with all these extra positions?