Re:What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber [video]
by herval on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @02:30PM
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(3) people who ponder what's the best solution for a given situation? Sometimes you want dynamic languages, or schema-less data. Sometimes you want rigid interfaces and verifiability.
Eg rolling out a public API in Thrift/protobuf will severely difficult its adoption, whereas Rest/JSON is pretty much the standard - but then building microservices that communicate to each other in Rest/JSON quickly leads to a costly, hard to maintain, inconsistent mess.
We're obsessed with "one fits all" absolutes in tech. We should have more "it depends" imho
Eg rolling out a public API in Thrift/protobuf will severely difficult its adoption, whereas Rest/JSON is pretty much the standard - but then building microservices that communicate to each other in Rest/JSON quickly leads to a costly, hard to maintain, inconsistent mess.
We're obsessed with "one fits all" absolutes in tech. We should have more "it depends" imho