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I can't help but feel the otters kinda over-engineered this whole thing.
by jimmyjazz14 5y ago
I can't help but feel the otters kinda over-engineered this whole thing.
- jeffbee 5y agoI think the otters should question some of the things that are meant to be axiomatic. Is tight coupling really a scalability problem? Otters should be prepared to defend these statements. Nixie's song might be the vacuous equivalent of "Mongo is web scale".
- jasonhansel 5y agoAlso: did adding the stream really decouple the otters, or did it just make the coupling less visible? After all, the consuming otters may still depend a great deal on the precise behaviors of the producing otters. It's just that now the producing otters don't know in what ways other otters depend on them, making it harder for them to make changes without harming their otter-dependents.
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- roccomathijn 5y agoNobody used the word decoupling. They just went from being tightly coupled to being loosely coupled.
- saynay 5y agoThe fact the producing otters don't know the ways in which the consuming otters handle the message is precisely the decoupling its talking about, no?
- codeulike 5y agoYou need some other animals - Beavers maybe? - who are in the same forest and who just have a simple system of scratching messages onto the side of a single large tree somewhere that everyone goes to look at regularly. Then at the end see how many picnics the beavers missed vs how many otters lost their fucking minds from the complexity of the system and then see who comes out ahead.