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Re:Monoliths Are the Future by sequoia on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:08PM (#22194971)
> you do not simply go and poke your reporting fingers into individual service databases

Side point: This is a needlessly hostile and unprofessional way to refer to a colleague. Remember that you and the reporting/analytics people at your company are working towards the same goals (the company's business goals). You are collaborators, not combatants.

You can express your same point by saying something like "The habit of directly accessing database resources and building out reporting code on this is likely to lead to some very serious problems when the schemas change. This is tantamount to relying upon a private API." etc.

We can all achieve much more when we endeavor to treat one another with respect and assume good intentions.

Re:Monoliths Are the Future by cheese4242 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:55PM (#22195474)
This is an incredible overreaction to an entirely innocuous comment.
Re:Monoliths Are the Future by frockington1 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:08PM (#22195610)
I've noticed reporting/analytics people going extinct around my workplace as micro services make monitoring easier. There might be some pent up hostility towards the technology side
Re:Monoliths Are the Future by sequoia on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:03PM (#22196274)
If you think telling colleagues not to "simply go and poke your reporting fingers into" things won't insult them or put them on a defensive footing, I encourage you to try it and closely note the reception you receive. In my experience, people do not appreciate being spoken to like that.
Re:Monoliths Are the Future by p1necone on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:21PM (#22196460)
They didn't tell their colleagues to do that, they made a slightly humorous comment on a hacker news thread.
Re:Monoliths Are the Future by sequoia on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:56PM (#22199194)
We’re colleagues by virtue of the fact that we’re members of the same profession.

Anyway, what’s the reason not to treat people on hackernews with the same respect you’d treat a coworker with?

Re:Monoliths Are the Future by ukyrgf on Thursday January 30, 2020 @04:01PM (#22195530)
I think I prefer the poking around analogy. I can immediately visualize why it's bad, and it doesn't have the word "tantamount".