3 ms·
to be fair, it is quite possible an app does not need a dozen different services, and using them would just introduce unnecessary complexity. E.g. slashdot use
by riffraff 10y ago
to be fair, it is quite possible an app does not need a dozen different services, and using them would just introduce unnecessary complexity.
E.g. slashdot used to run with, IIRC, only 4 roles: memcached, reverse proxy, apache, and mysql.
Your interviewer might have just failed in explaining the problem constraints properly.
- javajosh 10y ago>Your interviewer might have just failed in explaining the problem constraints properly. The simpler and more common explanation is that the interviewer was looking to have his biases reflected by the interviewee. In my experience it is difficult for a certain kind of mind to distinguish between "This person is stupid/crazy/wrong for the job" and "This person knows something I don't".