Tim Bray was always an architecture astronaut, but this example of cloud services for a toy shopping cart app points to an overengineering pathology in our industry. Complexity bloat is real and it has made the cloud fairly noxious. https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/08/09/Service-Fabric-News …
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The problem with complexity bloat is not just aesthetic—it prevents cool stuff from being made, creates a pointless barrier to entry for newcomers, and teaches those newcomers who do make it past ineradicably bad programming habits.
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This stuff infects everything. I upgraded a server OS yesterday and my ethernet port renamed itself from "eth0" to "enp1s0f0", just in case I happen to add three datacenters to the backplane.
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Which, to be fair, will happen if my bid for Pinterest is accepted.
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Since a lot of the unnecessary complexity is introduced by fearsomely smart people at Google and Amazon, there's a stigma against calling it out. Maybe I'm just too dim to understand a 'services mesh'. But we saw this movie before, with SOAP and the "Semantic Web" and RDF and...
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It's good Consultants. Also consider how difficult security is within this diagram, architecture.
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we're gonna need an architecture talmud for that diagram
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OMG - the best part of that slide - "sizing for 20 customers"!
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My head hurts just looking at that.
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