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Reminds me of the time at a previous job where a poorly supervised engineer developed a complex application using LabVIEW (an utterly inappropriate use of the t
by jcadam 4y ago
Reminds me of the time at a previous job where a poorly supervised engineer developed a complex application using LabVIEW (an utterly inappropriate use of the technology) and then took a new job with National Instruments, leaving a shop full of C and Ada programmers to maintain it.
- lesuorac 4y agoIf they wrote that using a bunch of LabVIEW microservices you could replace the services one-by-one with C/Ada until the whole thing was no longer LabVIEW. This is generally what I think the best part about microservices are; an easy way to improve upon the MVP in any dimension. Re-writing a whole monolith can take forever and probably will introduce a ton of bugs. But incrementally re-writing microservices won't stop feature development and is easy to A/B test for correctness.
- 8note 4y agoFor the unfamiliar, National Instruments makes LabView