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Have a customer with a 25 y/o Oracle PL/SQL system that basically operates their business and they can barely iterate on it. Every year a new consultancy comes in with their flavour of microservices and tries to subsume some functionality and they choke on the monolith to end all monoliths.
> argues against the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author's identity to distill meaning from the author's work.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author
I recommend Lindsay Ellis' video on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGn9x4-Y_7A
Many of the golden age authors rage from "just" problematic like Asimov to a lot worse (see for more: http://www.jasonsanford.com/blog/2018/2/golden-age-sf-not-go...). I still read these authors but I for one cannot help see the author in their books, and knowledge of their actions certainly influences how I interpret these books. I therefore don't believe in Death of the Author.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes
But in all seriousness we've got half a dozen use cases for this just off the top of my head.
I contacted Kong sales once about OpenID connect support, they basically dismissed us as too small. Needless to say we took Kong out of our stack and won't consider it again.
Compare it to https://www.python.org/ for example which is perfectly functional but squint and you could be on any page on the internet.
I've just started working in Rust and found it to have the right number of features compared to C++.