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A comment on Paul Osman on long-term strategies, open telemetry, and boring systems.

Re:Paul Osman on long-term strategies, open telemetry, and b... by pjmlp on Sunday September 26, 2021 @09:05AM (#28660565)
> “I don’t think there’s such a thing as cool or uncool architecture– there’s just architecture that works”....

Indeed, great point.

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Re:Paul Osman on long-term strategies, open telemetry, and b... by Azerb on Sunday September 26, 2021 @10:47AM (#28661291)
In my experience, to achieve large enough scale most systems have to be used in very simple ways. There isn’t space for additional complexity and the result is usually boring systems that work.
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Re:Paul Osman on long-term strategies, open telemetry, and b... by undreren on Sunday September 26, 2021 @12:57PM (#28662448)
Can confirm. IME, software that does less usually end up achieving more.
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