Rewrote our Python API gateway in Go and nobody cares
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Rewrote our Python API gateway in Go and nobody cares
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Re: Rewrote our Python API gateway in Go and nobody cares
#2Two months to refactor something that already worked fine? The product owner must have been on vacation. That was a very expensive project that produced zero business value.
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#3It is great to see a negative or neutral experience get some publicity showing the real consequences. We often see the publishing bias of a success story but rarely do you see 'did the thing and meh was the result' which is likely 99% of reality. Thanks for this!
Re: Rewrote our Python API gateway in Go and nobody cares
#4Well, at least if usage explodes it won't look like such a bad idea.
Re: Rewrote our Python API gateway in Go and nobody cares
#5Two months to refactor something that already worked fine? The product owner must have been on vacation. That was a very expensive project that produced zero business value.
I've wasted many 2 months on way worst tbh, at least he got something used by users with little, but still some, improvement
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#6Well, at least if usage explodes it won't look like such a bad idea.
That's a really big if.
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#8> New version handles 10x the throughput
Probably could have achieved 5x the throughput while using the team skills by just going from wsgi to asgi.
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#9"better" is a vague term and working hours are limited so clearly some things are more worth than others but
It's very easy to make the wrong conclusion from a post like this. Better software is achieved through small decisions that compound over time. And bad software often happens because shortcuts compound too.
Re: Rewrote our Python API gateway in Go and nobody cares
#10Two months to refactor something that already worked fine? The product owner must have been on vacation. That was a very expensive project that produced zero business value.
I've wasted many 2 months on way worst tbh, at least he got something used by users with little, but still some, improvement
I don’t know if I would see ”Now I'm the only go person so guess who gets paged for everything” as an improvement.