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I think this is especially pertinent for the current SOA/microservices trend that many companies are adopting nowadays. Build small, simple, highly focussed services that specialize at one thing. Services do one thing, and do it well, at the cost of flexibility and the ability to generalize over different use cases. I think this something that is perfectly ok and shouldn't make programmers squirm, even if it leads to code duplication.

In some of the more popular microservice frameworks for instance, I see some attempts to build abstractions for things like data persistence -(what if we want to swap out Postgres for Mongo, etc?) But I think that's a good example of a needless abstraction. In fact by building an abstraction like that, you lose many of the features that perhaps made that specific database so great in the first place.

It seems to be easier to mentally justify logic duplication in the hardware world. An FPGA is an abstraction of logic. In general, it trades off performance for more flexibility. An ASIC is specifically designed from the ground up to do one task very well, but deviate from that task and it's borderline useless. I think that for microservices, code should be treated more like ASICs. One off, application specific code that we won't be afraid to throwaway and rewrite from scratch if we need to.