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Agreed, it seems like the software approach as well. You wouldn't want a class or a piece of code to be "too big" to fail, you'd refactor it into smaller pieces

Agreed, it seems like the software approach as well. You wouldn't want a class or a piece of code to be "too big" to fail, you'd refactor it into smaller pieces which can be overviewed more easily.

CaptSpify 9y ago
It's really a basic engineering principle. Smaller and more distributed systems are more reliable.
- collyw 9y ago
  This sounds like the microkernel / monolith debate. Except monoliths kind of won.
  - CaptSpify 9y ago
    It depends on what you want to optimize for. micro is good for some things, mono is good for other things. Neither is inherently "better", it just depends on your goal