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> making your code more complicated and still slower than if you thought about performance at the start. Not if your optimization for performance is some Rube

by xnx 6mo ago

> making your code more complicated and still slower than if you thought about performance at the start. Not if your optimization for performance is some Rube Goldberg assemblage of microservices and an laundry list of AWS services.

causal 6mo ago
Exactly. Today "premature optimization" almost always means unnecessary infra or abstractions or some other complexity- not DS&A choices.
pcblues 6mo ago
I still don't understand microservices for anything short of a NAG of four level architecture.