I’ve seen many unnecessary services-that-should-have-been-libraries. Usually the result of organizational structure and career ambition; it’s more high-profile

I’ve seen many unnecessary services-that-should-have-been-libraries. Usually the result of organizational structure and career ambition; it’s more high-profile to launch a new service than to write a new library. Coworker jokingly called one egregious case the “Promotion Service”, as that seemed to be the main function of the service for the team which developed it.