eidolon @shaderphantom@awoo.space

This is me speaking from 2+ years of experience building greenfield products adopting "industry standard" practices. Doing that was a mistake that we keep repeating.

The industry standard should not be treated as a given. If your engineering team doesn't have the technical discipline to explain why you need the industry standard, then you shouldn't use the industry standard.

If you have to ask why you're doing microservices, chances are you do not need microservices.

And I return to the point about the domain model not being treated as an architectural blueprint:

The network is the most fragile part of your architecture. If you take it for granted, your systems will become failure-prone messes.

Don't do microservices, until you truly need it.

The efforts done to make microservices architecture "easy" were themselves incredibly expensive. So why did anyone invest into it?

Because the companies that went to it had a practical need to break things down into smaller components, and it was cheaper to invest in the research for e.g. gRPC or other technologies that make the implementation of microservices more robust than to continue scaling vertically.

The problem with implementing every DDD service as a "microservice" is the amount of complexity you add to the intercommunication of those services. No, HTTP REST is not free. It is in fact very expensive to maintain.

Strangler Pattern exists to address monoliths that exist in practice, not to avoid monoliths that exist in theory.

Lessons learned from the cargo cult of microservices:

Your application architecture should not 1:1 reflect the Services of your Domain Model (if you are adhering to Domain Driven Design).

If you do not have any software design discipline, your engineers will reliably build unmaintainable garbage.

I'm also, unironically, Pebble the Cockatoo when I get off of work and screaming about shit

I feel like the parrot that screams "what the FUCK"

you can make me instantly nut by using a chord progression comprised entirely of sevenths

star child

Holy FUCK The Genesis/Mega Drive has BASS what the FUCK

MY SWEET BABY BOY

ristar time babyyyyy

lmfao the password cards for Mickey Mouse World of Illusion is fucking unreadable wtf

okay now I remember why I didn't want to play on this PSIV cartridge

all 3 save slots are full with someone else's saves

and I feel INTENSE anxiety overwriting them lol

wow nothing really compares to blowing into the cartridge slot of an old game console to get it working huh*

*DON'T WORRY I KNOW THIS IS BAD FOR THE PINS

pso2 is a game where every time they make an update, the music producer makes a full hour of music for one boss fight just because he can