Successfully convincing so many people that they are doing something morally unvirtuous sucks oxygen from efforts to improve the 2/
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job of building significant sized applications. So people who might be motivated to improve the process of building big apps 3/
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and who would be good at it are instead trapped in an endless cycle of self-loathing caused by the widespread belief that they are doing 4/
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something morally suspect. And of course this means that big apps continue to struggle in all of the ways people criticize them for. 5/
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But this is not intrinsic, and I think we'd do well to start believing in ourselves and our capacity for improvement a little more. 6/6
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Microservices are consultant-sized. Easier for transient developers to poke at when they don't have to operate the mesh for a decade
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Microservices are a response to Conway's Law. Easier team parcelling is traded for increase in infra complexity.
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Exactly. It's an organizational pattern for mega corps.
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incredibly proficient teams are constantly tending those fault lines, are acutely aware of their impact, and how to mitigate them
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according to the thesis of the microbros, it would be impossible to rewrite the Ember view layer. Except we did... many times.
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(the Ember view layer is a "giant monolith" with a well-defined API ;) )
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Importance of having a well designed boundary++ Now do the __container__ ;)
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nice! On that same note, fully opinionated JS stack! (roll them dice, boi)
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GlimmerDI is badly needed. stoked.
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put another way, when you're between a rock and a hard place, but still have to ship, big feels harder than "small", but really isnt
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I've found that big is perhaps surprisingly easier, because you didn't have to craft and maintain those heavier boundaries.
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or to put it another way, microservices may in theory scale better, but method calls can't fail due to HTTP errors.
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[maybe off topic] there's something nice about not feeling connecting to these kinds of thought-leaders' noise much anymore
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do you work on a React app?
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I don't write a lot of "real code" at FB. Mostly internal facing tools and mostly with graphql and Sinatra.
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(my comment wasn't a testament to React, just to the pleasant side effect of insulation from noise)
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yeah, I got it :) tbh I envy the way FB seems insulated from the noise, even from the outside...
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