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>I've talked to developers who have taken a single app that worked perfectly fine and split it into five or six services just because "microservices!" Now they'

>I've talked to developers who have taken a single app that worked perfectly fine and split it into five or six services just because "microservices!" Now they're stuck maintaining five apps, five APIs, etc And then when they need help fixing the mess they can call in a consultant wielding Fowlers latest book, or go to a bunch of new monolithichitecture conferences where people put up slides full of memes mocking microservices. Truly we are blessed to live in an era of such efficient job creation.

curiously 11y ago
wonder if they did it to increase their job security. "If I make something that only I can understand, my job is guaranteed, and if it's complicated the longer I can stay employed"
- shift8 11y ago
  plenty of bad code out there built with more popular tools and patterns that only few people understand =)
  - curiously 11y ago
    "so I wrote our backend using brainfuck and we've been using it for a year now, you really think you can fire me?"
    - shift8 11y ago
      hahaha, love it. and you wrote the readme in zalgo, right?
drdoom 11y ago
But you realize that before they mock it, they first have to build a data lake for it.