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I’ve also seen people reinventing the wheel (poorly), seemingly to avoid existing and proven technology, like writing a bespoke DB load balancer / health checke
by sgarland 3y ago
I’ve also seen people reinventing the wheel (poorly), seemingly to avoid existing and proven technology, like writing a bespoke DB load balancer / health checker in Node using Redis and Dynamo, instead of just standing up HAProxy.
“My JavaScript will surely be more performant and less buggy than production-grade C that’s existed for decades.”
- baq 3y agoI guess it’s more ‘I don’t need another layer in my stack which I don’t know how to configure; I just need this one feature, how hard can it be’.
- hinkley 3y agoNginx is not a joy to configure but it’s probably easier than hystrix.
- hinkley 3y agoI have my fingers in some of our reloadable configuration code and one of the places I see it used a lot is basically a bespoke service discovery system. It's so stupid, and it adds a lot of overhead. There are at least three competing solutions (architectures, not vendors) for this problem and two of them were old hat before this code was ever written. Stop it.