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Re:Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction by cryo32 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:20PM (#48621764)
You mean you don’t have 300 versions of your badly developed rapidly evolving platform services rotting away underneath the bit you didn’t duplicate?
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Re:Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction by mystifyingpoi on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:27PM (#48621814)
I don't. Other teams - maybe they do, maybe they don't. Who cares, not me. I have responsibility for services of my team, I think we are doing a good job.

Being selfish is the core principle of microservice architecture.

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Re:Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction by cryo32 on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:32PM (#48621853)
Until half your company gets laid off and you have to adopt other people’s shit.
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