There’s 0 downsides to criticizing everyone else’s projects and systems so a lot of people do it. This is kinda exacerbated by the fact that we engineers have a

There’s 0 downsides to criticizing everyone else’s projects and systems so a lot of people do it. This is kinda exacerbated by the fact that we engineers have a reputation for being incorrect about the stability of systems we build ( there are good reasons for this, and I personally don’t think it’s possible to avoid that impression even when it’s not intended). I wonder if this team would have done better with tools that offer better observability (metrics, logs, tracing etc.). An example of a rewrite that went well https://avc.com/2019/12/grinding/ https://avc.com/2019/12/grinding/