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microservices, like graphql, have certainly fallen from grace by more senior engineers. i see mostly jrs advocate for it because that's what they were taught.
by sergiotapia 2y ago
microservices, like graphql, have certainly fallen from grace by more senior engineers. i see mostly jrs advocate for it because that's what they were taught.
a senior engineer will try to keep the monolith for only as possible and only then explore a new tiny service.
- Alupis 2y agoTo the contrary, it is often the "senior" engineers that refuse to learn new architectures, and only want to build in ways they already know and used in the past.
- sergiotapia 2y agonot what I've seen. seniors have used these latest tools to ship before and are aware of the negatives.
- int_19h 2y agoSenior engineers are more likely to be the ones who have seen how mindless adoption of fad-of-the-day translates to product quality, and are more likely to choose a solution that they have seen actually work, and for which they know the warts and how to handle them. That's a good thing - experienced engineers should be conservative when it comes to code that runs in prod. Customers are not guinea pigs.