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Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by alexandercrohde on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @05:31PM (#13322733)
Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)...

Maybe 1 person can't make twitter by himself, but I think the necessary number is much closer to 1 than it is to 4,100

Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by bdcravens on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @06:48PM (#13323288)
Recently listened to DHH's Software Engineering Radio interview, and his statement about teams of 3 developers bragging about their 4 microservices really stuck out to me.
Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by sanderjd on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @07:58PM (#13323750)
We seem to be in an era of microservice dissing. It reminds me a lot of the recent era of monoservice dissing. Just an observation.
Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by thesimpsons1022 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @08:48PM (#13324011)
everything in the world is susceptible to trends. especially in the tech world we tend to embrace concepts and take them too far. we then realize we took it too far and adjust too far to the other side like a pendulum. As usual, somewhere in the middle is best.
Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by thrillgore on Thursday January 05, 2017 @04:05PM (#13331386)
It just seems easier now to reinvent the wheel 500 times as opposed to fixing it the first time. It may just be agile thinking.
Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by Arcaire on Thursday January 05, 2017 @03:17AM (#13325600)
Do you happen to have a link to that? I'm interested to hear it.
Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by jdex on Thursday January 05, 2017 @03:51AM (#13325745)
Haven't listened to it yet, but it seems like this is the mentioned episode http://www.se-radio.net/2016/06/se-radio-episode-261-david-h...
Re:Renewing Medium’s focus by tomc1985 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @07:44PM (#13323671)

  >Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)...
This! So much of modern development looks like a jobs program. Then one steps back and looks at SV development in general, and realizes that 95% of their engineering staff is redundant.

Worse, are these asshole companies crowding out the H-1B system with all these extra positions?