ahmetnoid · HackerTrans

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I'm relatively new in this and recently I've been reading and hearing a lot about how distributed systems are overused and usually a monolith can do a better job etc. I'm working at a company serving millions of customers and distributed systems are utilized, most of my experience as a software engineer was built around this to the point that I was never around a codebase that is 10/20k+ lines of code. I feel like I lack some skills in modular monolith coding skills. My question is what kind of sources can I read to improve my understanding of monolith vs microservices, when to use each, and the tradeoff of preferring one over the other?

ahmetnoid

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I watched the video at the bottom of the page, and it was all fun and I did laugh. But you lost me at the difference between ق and ك (q and k respectively) They are different sounds and do not have the same pronunciation.

ahmetnoid

vor 3 Jahrendiscuss

I remember Peter Thiel once said that investing in google is investing against innovation, that the company had no competition for a very long time, and that they see no reason to why they needed to reinvent themselves. As long as there's no threat to the company, they can just maintain the current tech and harvest the green from it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q26XIKtwXQ

ahmetnoid

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I'm not making a case in favor of starting with microservices for your startup, that'd be insane, to say the least. I'm just disagreeing with "scalability is a feature". A feature is every addition on top of your minimum viable product. If at some point it becomes apparent that the business needs scalability, then scalability becomes your minimum viable product.

ahmetnoid

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Scalability is not a feature. If you "need" to scale but don't then you're not delivering to your target market, not delivering is not a lack of a feature it's a net loss to the organization. If you're Twitter/Instagram/Uber/whatever you cannot tell your users to not post or like or request a ride because "right now we don't have the scalability feature"

ahmetnoid

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Very good point. But I'd like to get an accurate answer from science in general, I don't see why more effort shouldn't be put into finding the reason behind what's discussed here. culture and upbringing is a mix of biological tendencies and imposed constructs, and I'd like to know which is which.

ahmetnoid

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

I don't understand what does this has to do with anything? how does that fit in things vs people? a doll is a thing after all? I'm not saying there's no deep genetic drive at all.

ahmetnoid

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

because if it's biological then you have to live with it (till you get scalable affordable bioengineering) whereas if it's social imprinting then you don't "have to live with it", for that it's going against our biological encoding. Your comment suggest that we should not question upbringing which I disagree with.

ahmetnoid

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

Still the problem here is we don't _really_ know whether this is genetic or shaped by our upbringing even when it comes to the most egalitarian societies. I'd like to see the same study done on the little left hunter-gatherers bands.

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