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by gwn7 1271 days ago
Seems like a reasonable effort and we probably need more of this kind of stuff. But still I think the industry should focus more on educating developers to prevent them from introducing mostly unnecessary accidental complexity to today's typical apps rather than inventing new layers to manage it.

Related:

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1603498230125588480

https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/600783770925420546

https://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2011/03/architec...

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#2 - I once spent 18 months convincing my teammates to move our hottest data set from DynamoDB to RAM. Next time, I won't bother.

#3 - Heh. The "N+1" architecture. However many layers your architectural design methodology has, ours has one more. (h/t Spinal Tap).

Is that Twitter you? Good stuff. Like the unique URL for posting CSVs.

> #2 - I once spent 18 months convincing my teammates to move our hottest data set from DynamoDB to RAM. Next time, I won't bother.

Yeah, don't bother. People don't want simplicity. The majority of our tribe are masochists haha

> #3 - Heh. The "N+1" architecture. However many layers your architectural design methodology has, ours has one more. (h/t Spinal Tap).

Exactly

> Is that Twitter you? Good stuff. Like the unique URL for posting CSVs.

Oh no I'm not Gary, sorry =)