> Hell, I would argue that a lot of services at established companies don't actually need to worry about it (and the ones that do, need to worry about it a lot)

> Hell, I would argue that a lot of services at established companies don't actually need to worry about it (and the ones that do, need to worry about it a lot). Tons of stuff inside of $megacorps is running on crummy "non-scalable" architectures because somebody sat down and did the "engineering" part of "software engineering" and went "y'know, I think all we're really ever need is..." Yeah, those system architectures are the ones that end up in all the other rants, the ones about how companies never prioritize fixing technical debt and legacy code :)