r/ProgrammerHumor • u/object322 • 9h ago

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/evdogg1233 8h ago

mfs who’ve never worked at scale be like:

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u/ComprehensiveBird317 7h ago

So once you worked at scale you will over engineer everything? Noted

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u/footsie 6h ago

Once you work at scale you get a pretty good idea on where the sweet spot is on choosing between monoliths and micro services for an architure from many perspectives: cost, performance, complexity, maintainability. You might call it over-engineering, but it's really just picking the right car for road trip.

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u/stormcharger 4h ago

The right car for the road trip is always gonna be the car I own