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Re:Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems ... by sdoering on Saturday February 19, 2022 @11:57AM (#30398500)
> These things are tools and it doesn’t pay to be dogmatic.

I wish I would hear this line more often.

So many things today are (pseudo-) religious now. The right frsmework/language, cloud or on prem, x vs not x.

Especially bad imho when somebody tries to tell you how you could do better with 'not x' instead of x you are currently using without even trying to understand the context this decision resides in.

[Edit] typo

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Re:Ask HN: Do you find working on large distributed systems ... by qorrect on Saturday February 19, 2022 @05:35PM (#30401183)
> So many things today are (pseudo-) religious now. The right frsmework/language, cloud or on prem, x vs not x.

Might have always been that way? We just have so many more tools to argue over now.

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