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Engineering types often prefer to think in hard rules…either an approach is absolutely better or absolutely worse. Saying medium-size services are best means t
by nfw2 4y ago
Engineering types often prefer to think in hard rules…either an approach is absolutely better or absolutely worse.
Saying medium-size services are best means that the engineer needs to use their judgment to determine where that threshold is. It becomes more of an art than a science, which many engineers are deeply-uncomfortable with, so they stick to their dogmas.
- Haga 4y ago
- john_the_writer 4y agoThe issue with this, lies in different judgements. If I'm looking for a bit of code that I plan to extend, I have to understand the judgement of the coder who quit 2 years ago. If the decision to use metric or imperial bolts on a bridge were up to the individual builder... Picking a solid "do x" or "do y" makes for much simpler pull requests. I currently work on a project with some GraphQL, some basic json and some json-api. Some of the app is BFF and other bits are not client to the micro. Using our judgement is working out a treat.