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The really interesting part is IMO this one:

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[–] mark@programming.dev 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not surprised that Tech debt is among the biggest. There seems to be a lot of complexity added to apps unnecessarily these days-especially web based apps. It's almost like companies purposefully force their engineers into creating web apps so bloated that users have no choice but to use the native app version.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, the thing I work on hada great idea. Use microservices, because we genuinely have a need to independently scale different parts.

Few years down the line and there's an endless list uff services, most with a single instance doing nothing all day, and having memory and CPU overhead of course. And being a nightmare to figure out what code is whereas they all communicate independently.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 10 points 1 month ago

And being a nightmare to figure out what code is whereas they all communicate independently.

So much this. Especially in a larger company it can be basically impossible to find the code that implements an endpoint, and of course even if you can find it you can't trace it in a debugger.