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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personally, I think Conway's Law is just a law of nature, and microservices work great 1 per team w/ many teams.
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but the sad thing is "if it works for Amazon it'll work for me" is widely believed.
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Yeah a big piece is folks thinking, "We'll be that big soon! Better start preparing now." Ev Williams might be the only person it's true for
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it also costs a hell of a lot in smaller orgs, when you should be optimizing for velocity not people-scale.
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