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Diagram 1 has the comment "What I think it should be". It's easy to interpret that as "stackoverflow should change to be like this", but I think it was meant t

Diagram 1 has the comment "What I think it should be". It's easy to interpret that as "stackoverflow should change to be like this", but I think it was meant to be more like "If I had to guess how stackoverflow works, this is what I think it would look like". It's amazing how much performance and scalability you can get out of computers, if you don't burden them with 100x overhead caused by shoveling data between microservices all the time :-)

quanticle 4y ago
It's easy to interpret that as "stackoverflow should change to be like this", but I think it was meant to be more like "If I had to guess how stackoverflow works, this is what I think it would look like". That's not a better interpretation. It says something (something not good) about the mindset of modern software engineers that the first thing they think of when they look at a website like StackOverflow is a n-layer microservice architecture, with more moving components than a Swiss chronometer.
- asalahli 4y ago
  It is absolutely a better interpretation. The former signals arrogance while the latter shows that OP accepts the inferiority of their guess in comparison to the actual architecture.
- threeseed 4y ago
  This comment also says something. You've taken the opinion of one engineer and used it to denigrate the mindset of all modern (young ?) software engineers.
  - hedora 4y ago
    From Britannica: modernity, the self-definition of a generation about its own technological innovation, governance, and socioeconomics. To participate in modernity was to conceive of one's society as engaging in organizational and knowledge advances that make one's immediate predecessors appear antiquated or, at least, surpassed In engineering, etc, these days, it usually refers to the idea that a single solution works for all people / use cases. Kubernetes proponents are a great example of current day modernists.
    - threeseed 4y ago
      You have a very odd interpretation of "modern". Kubernetes was initially released 9 years ago. And it's not worlds apart from VM managers like vSphere which is 14 years old.

quanticle 4y ago

It's easy to interpret that as "stackoverflow should change to be like this", but I think it was meant to be more like "If I had to guess how stackoverflow works, this is what I think it would look like". That's not a better interpretation. It says something (something not good) about the mindset of modern software engineers that the first thing they think of when they look at a website like StackOverflow is a n-layer microservice architecture, with more moving components than a Swiss chronometer.

asalahli 4y ago
It is absolutely a better interpretation. The former signals arrogance while the latter shows that OP accepts the inferiority of their guess in comparison to the actual architecture.
threeseed 4y ago
This comment also says something. You've taken the opinion of one engineer and used it to denigrate the mindset of all modern (young ?) software engineers.
- hedora 4y ago
  From Britannica: modernity, the self-definition of a generation about its own technological innovation, governance, and socioeconomics. To participate in modernity was to conceive of one's society as engaging in organizational and knowledge advances that make one's immediate predecessors appear antiquated or, at least, surpassed In engineering, etc, these days, it usually refers to the idea that a single solution works for all people / use cases. Kubernetes proponents are a great example of current day modernists.
  - threeseed 4y ago
    You have a very odd interpretation of "modern". Kubernetes was initially released 9 years ago. And it's not worlds apart from VM managers like vSphere which is 14 years old.