Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)...
Maybe 1 person can't make twitter by himself, but I think the necessary number is much closer to 1 than it is to 4,100
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Recently listened to DHH's Software Engineering Radio interview, and his statement about teams of 3 developers bragging about their 4 microservices really stuck out to me.
We seem to be in an era of microservice dissing. It reminds me a lot of the recent era of monoservice dissing. Just an observation.
everything in the world is susceptible to trends. especially in the tech world we tend to embrace concepts and take them too far. we then realize we took it too far and adjust too far to the other side like a pendulum. As usual, somewhere in the middle is best.
It just seems easier now to reinvent the wheel 500 times as opposed to fixing it the first time. It may just be agile thinking.
Do you happen to have a link to that? I'm interested to hear it.
Haven't listened to it yet, but it seems like this is the mentioned episode http://www.se-radio.net/2016/06/se-radio-episode-261-david-h...
>Good point. I think it's easy to forget how much work engineers can make for ourselves (Uber has >700 microservices)...
Worse, are these asshole companies crowding out the H-1B system with all these extra positions?