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Re:Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem les... by koliber on Thursday June 20, 2024 @05:25AM (#40736656)
Lot's of things are nice to have but are expensive.

I'd love to have a private pool in my backyard. I don't, even though it's nice to have, because it is too expensive.

We intuitively make cost-benefit choices in our private lives. When it comes to deciding the same things at work, our reasoning often goes haywire.

Sometimes we need an expensive thing to solve a real problem.

Your point about object-oriented programming makes sense. Sometimes, a bash script suffices, and the person who decides to implement that same functionality in Java is just wasting resources.

All of these solutions have a place where they make sense. When they are blindly applied because they're a fad they generate a lot of costs.

Re:Ask HN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem les... by k8sToGo on Thursday June 20, 2024 @06:16AM (#40736957)
That’s true. Using k8s to host a static website would be silly.

Generally I only use it when I see a compelling case for it and the introduced complexity takes away complexity from somewhere else.