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I think this depends on the library. There are some libraries that are just used in a handful of services, and in those cases I don't think that wrapping is worth the overhead. How…

There was previous discussion related to our microservices architecture here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22725989 .

I think we've gone back on forth on this over the years. The rate of new services is decreasing, so I think we have shifted more from lots of very small services (low thousands lin…

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This is a potential downside of this architecture. As others have already said, there are mitigations, but fundamentally each edge request is going to be more costly (time or money…

I like this suggestion from another sub-thread: > bias for action when it's a reversible decision https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376853

I think the other responses have explained the definition I had in mind for "anti-value". "Frugality" is a bit less explicit than "move fast _and break things_. I think the reason …

Thank you for raising the point about contradictions in values. I tried to work it into the original blog post, but I felt like it detracted from my main point. I previously felt t…

This are beautiful. I had a go at doing roughly the same thing a couple of years ago [0]. It was mostly straightforward, but the part I really struggled with were rendering the sea…

I see this sentiment a lot in the Go community. I think it is reasonable in some cases, but there are many use cases (vanilla CRUD web apps) where a web framework is really helpful…

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Somewhat off topic, but the idea to show the examples as diffs against the prior one was based on this block post: https://jameshfisher.com/2017/11/23/diff-views . I would be inter…

I think what is often missed with values, is the "anti values". Often when I see a list of company values, it looks as if they can have their cake and eat it too. They are not expl…

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