Re:Ask HN: What was your most humbling learning moment?
by brazzy on Monday June 03, 2024 @06:49AM
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Ohh yeah.
A few years ago I worked on a system that had replaced a previous system that was like that: a bunch of microservices with multiple instances, communicating via message queues, all in the name of scalability and high availability.
The actual nonfunctional requirements? Handle between 0 and a few hundred requests per day, and it would be just fine of they get delayed a few days as well.
The best part was that the overengineered previous system actually had far more outages and delays caused by its complex deployment and data model than the simple single-instance monolith that replaced it.
A few years ago I worked on a system that had replaced a previous system that was like that: a bunch of microservices with multiple instances, communicating via message queues, all in the name of scalability and high availability.
The actual nonfunctional requirements? Handle between 0 and a few hundred requests per day, and it would be just fine of they get delayed a few days as well.
The best part was that the overengineered previous system actually had far more outages and delays caused by its complex deployment and data model than the simple single-instance monolith that replaced it.