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by tomrod 1661 days ago
Hey! I enjoyed this post a lot. I agree with almost all your points raised except for single-team == no microservices. Your prose makes your points easy to understand.

I have a couple layout comments:

First, I love that you have a high contract text-to-background. That is really helpful for me. There was/is a trend to have light gray on white backgrounds for blogs; this is absolutely a terrible pattern. I appreciate that you did not go this route.

Second: serif fonts are difficult to read when the font size is relatively small. Something like Jura or similar could maintain the "terminal" feel without getting bogged down in serifs.

Third: I have a really hard time reading content when it uses smaller fonts and uses a minor fraction of the screen. This is what I see: https://imgur.com/a/NPCBkHJ -- I am getting older, and reading smaller fonts is increasingly difficult for me. I tend to keep my zoom at 150%, something about this page forced it back to 100%. I am not well versed in responsive design, so I don't know the technical details for it, but having zoom maintain or using a larger font would save some cognitive cost to older users like myself needing to zoom in.

Thanks for your thoughts on microservices!