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spricket on March 4, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What made you change your mind about a pro...

Heh, definitely some truth to this.

What saved us before, was our forest of code could depend on the database to maintain some sanity. And we leaned on it heavily. Hold a transaction open while 10,000 lines of code and a few N+1 queries do their business? Eh, okay, I guess.

Maybe we didn't have the descipine to make microservices work. But IMO our engineering team was pretty good compared to others I've seen. All our "traditional" apps chugged along fine during the same period

raverbashing on March 4, 2019 [–]

Really, whenever someone blames "discipline" be suspicious

Not even the army has perfect discipline, even with hard training. They have cross-checks, piles of processes and move slowly for the most part

(Software development shouldn't aim to be like the army though)

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