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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I complained about complexity bloat in a 2015 talk on the website obesity crisis, but that was nothing compared to what people are having to endure today. https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm …pic.twitter.com/py5kAqH9TO
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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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