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The microservices fad/wave was where people seemed to lose their minds. The "Solving Imaginary Scaling Issues (at scale)" meme encapsulated it for me. Most prog
by xnx 1y ago
The microservices fad/wave was where people seemed to lose their minds. The "Solving Imaginary Scaling Issues (at scale)" meme encapsulated it for me. Most programmers of the time seemed far more interested in being architecture astronauts than making something useful. The overengineered hosting setups were also a major impediment to anyone who just wanted to make something useful.
Fortunately, AI-assisted coding seems to be wrestling back coding from developers and re-empowering domain experts and systems analysts. A full recession will probably shake out a lot more of the waste in software development.
- red_rech 1y ago> Most programmers of the time seemed far more interested in being architecture astronauts than making something useful. Of course they were, being an architect astronaut got you hired. You have to get passed the resume filters and the architecture interview to even have the chance to work on the internal enterprises tool no one uses anyway. People just respond to what will grow their career.
- mountainriver 1y agoYep, the reality is it works… and that’s why things are often a mess
- dartharva 1y ago+1, came here to say this
- surgical_fire 1y agoIt was always fun to work on companies doing microservice architecture for applications that would scale for thousands of users. Thousands. You could run it from a laptop probably, DB and all.