Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi...
by kermatt on Saturday September 16, 2023 @01:54PM
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Experience and cynicism are closely related.
Re:How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engi...
by 59nadir on Saturday September 16, 2023 @03:04PM
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Funnily enough I've never worked with a dev that thought microservices were actually a good idea as a standard solution. My last brush with it is by proxy of one of my former teammates who has a client contract where the client insisted they do microservices for their app that fits in a t2small with 90% resources to spare and will for the foreseeable future. So far it's slowed down development to probably 25% or so of the speed it was before and 10% of what it should be.
From the top of my head...
* A bunch of opinionated devs pushing for microservices because they heard that's what cool kids do now. No technical reason behind at all, just pure bias flamed by a couple of blog posts/YouTube talks they watched one evening.
* A bunch of devops with intentions of implementing "industry best practices and modern tooling ©" that will end up creating a house of cards in Terraform that nobody, themselves included, will dare to touch in six months down the road.
Am I sounding too cynical?