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My point is that a lot of engineers freak out about things they read a Facebook engineering blog post about, and are "engineering" a crazy complex system for mo
by Godel_unicode 7y ago
My point is that a lot of engineers freak out about things they read a Facebook engineering blog post about, and are "engineering" a crazy complex system for months to handle non-facebook volumes of traffic. They then reassure themselves by valuing the ideological purity of their design over the months salary they wasted on building their Sistine chapel of REST. This is mid-level engineers all day, every day.
- emodendroket 7y agoYes, sure, that sucks, but you need some kind of balance, because sometimes you dig a hole that's so deep it's hard to get out of. Surely part of being "senior" is having some sense of what kind of abstractions and optimizations are worth making up-front and which can be saved for when they become necessary.