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by pocket_cheese 1166 days ago
My experience at FAANG was that every major service had like 9 layers of abstraction or had to traverse several hops to do the actual thing. I've kinda become jaded and feel like most things that make money are ugly. Whether it's a giant plate of spaghetti served up by some start-up trying to be the first to market, or a lovecraftian horror that is only exceeded in scale by it's unknowability - like what OP posted. The end result is the same... 40 api calls to submit a form :'''(