[jiggawatts]

I just read through several thousand lines of code re-implementing the concept of a distributed queue from the ground up... for an application that has maybe a few hundred users. And doesn't need queues, at all.

This issue is so pervasive that we've all just assumed that it must be necessary.

[djtango]

I couldn't get the context of this response - is this application you read unrelated to the featured article?

I just read the article and from what I can tell the Figma team made a somewhat reasonable sounding decision

[jiggawatts]

Yes, unrelated. My point was that wheel-reinvention is a curse of the software industry because it's just so easy to reinvent every wheel on a whim. DevOps and is no different. How many large orgs have their own build tooling, or some special sauce around large repos?