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"But I've worked on teams that advocated for microservices needlessly, and it was 100% cargo cult behavior: "Netflix does it, so we should too." I've seen this

"But I've worked on teams that advocated for microservices needlessly, and it was 100% cargo cult behavior: "Netflix does it, so we should too." I've seen this too, and in fact I got laid off because I pushed back against this silliness for what should have been a simple lift and shift.

salt-thrower 5y ago
That's awful, and probably the most egregious example I've heard of a cargo cult gone wrong. The longer I'm in this field the more disappointed I am by the influence that trendy groupthink has. I know no field is immune to it, but it seems more pervasive in software.