A Hard Decision To Make

Content Amir Shevat O ashevat A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, "I know, I'll solve it with threads!" has Now problems. two he 10:00 PM 16 Jan 21 Twitter for iPhone Proarammerumor.io

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Content IT CAME TO THEM WITH A MESSAGE. BUT THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND ITS ALIEN LANGUAGE A microservices archifecture is only necessary in a large, complex dev environment. Most shops would be better off just using simple monoliths following SOLID principles and reap benefits from frequent small deployments FUCKING WHAT? poorlydrawnlines.com

Just another Tuesday in DevOps. You're casually sipping coffee, testing a new rate limiter in what you thought was the staging environment. Then you realize you typed 10.0.1.5 instead of 10.0.1.6 and suddenly the entire company Slack is lighting up with alerts. Production is down, customers are screaming, and your coffee is now being violently expelled from your body as pure adrenaline takes over. The best part? You'll get to explain this in the post-mortem tomorrow while the CTO stares directly into your soul.

Sure, normal people count to 10 on their fingers. But us nerds? We're out here counting in binary where each finger is a bit. Two hands = 10 bits = 2^10 = 1024 values. It's the same reason we think 512MB is a nice round number while marketing folks insist on calling it "half a gig." We didn't spend years optimizing algorithms just to use decimal like some kind of animal. The irony? Most of us still use our fingers to count how many bugs we've introduced while fixing the original one.

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