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Funny typo (if it was indeed supposed to read “by contrast”).
> They don’t actually mind proprietary languages. They want products that work, and products that work together. Modularity and flexibility are useful to the extent that they’re means to those ends. This is why we are a pure Microsoft shop today. Between Visual Studio, GitHub and .NET/C#, we have been able to construct a stable, long-term B2B product stack with a very small team. If we had selected a more diverse tec…
There's nothing wrong with the Microsoft stack. There's also nothing wrong with any of a dozen other stacks. A small team that knows their stack well will perform well. Microservices, on the other hand, are an effective way to burn engineering resources on something that feels like productive work but delivers no business value. I wouldn't infer much about the merits of tech stacks based on that experience.
Except for the security mono-culture, where a single vulnerability can take out your entire operation. Just ask Maersk about NotPetya:
* https://www.i-cio.com/management/insight/item/maersk-springi...