You Want Modules, Not Microservices

Re:You Want Modules, Not Microservices by marcosdumay on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @10:06AM (#34232268)

It varies a bit with language and tooling, but 10k lines is around the place where the size of your file by itself becomes a major impediment on finding anything and understanding what is important.

A 10k lines file is not something that will completely destroy your productivity, but it will have an impact and you'd better look out for it growing further, because completely destroying your productivity is not too far away. It is almost always good to organize your code when it reaches a size like this, and the exceptions are on contexts where you can't, never on contexts where it's worthless.

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Re:You Want Modules, Not Microservices by karamanolev on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:18PM (#34234390)

I generally agree. My argument is that 10K lines written one way can certainly be more readable than 10 files x 1K lines written in a different way, so the real differentiator is the encapsulation and code style, not KLOC/file per se.

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