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I just read through several thousand lines of code re-implementing the concept of a distributed queue from the ground up... for an application that has maybe a
by jiggawatts 3y ago
I just read through several thousand lines of code re-implementing the concept of a distributed queue from the ground up... for an application that has maybe a few hundred users. And doesn't need queues, at all.
This issue is so pervasive that we've all just assumed that it must be necessary.
- djtango 3y agoI couldn't get the context of this response - is this application you read unrelated to the featured article? I just read the article and from what I can tell the Figma team made a somewhat reasonable sounding decision
- jiggawatts 3y agoYes, unrelated. My point was that wheel-reinvention is a curse of the software industry because it's just so easy to reinvent every wheel on a whim. DevOps and is no different. How many large orgs have their own build tooling, or some special sauce around large repos?