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Re:Radio – a chatroom for multiplayer agent work on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:18AM (#49723084)
This is a really interesting idea.

I’ve been using multiple coding agents too, and constantly copy-pasting messages between them gets tedious pretty quickly.

I’m going to try this soon! :-)

Re:You Want Microservices, but Do You Need Them? on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @05:52AM (#46132977)
Well said!

Every service boundary replaces a function call with a network request. That one choice cascades into distributed transactions, eventual consistency, and operational overhead most teams don't need. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re:You Want Microservices, but Do You Need Them? on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @05:49AM (#46132961)
That's the right approach. This is what the article suggests:

>> For most systems, well-structured modular monoliths (for most common applications, including startups) or SOA (enterprises) deliver comparable scalability and resilience as microservices, without the distributed complexity tax. Alternatively, you may also consider well-sized services (macroservices, or what Gartner proposed as miniservices) instead of tons of microservices.

Re:You Want Microservices, but Do You Need Them? on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @11:37PM (#46130360)
Try sharing it with them anyway!:D
Re:You Want Microservices, but Do You Need Them? on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @11:37PM (#46130353)
Indeed, that's whatthe article captures here:

>> Microservices make sense in very specific scenarios where distinct business capabilities need independent scaling and deployment. For example, payment processing (security-critical, rarely updated) differs fundamentally from recommendation engine (memory-intensive, constantly A/B tested). These components have different scaling patterns, deployment cycles, and risk profiles, which justify separate services.

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