Arafat Islam

Backend Focused | PHP, Node | Laravel+Vue Fan | Typescript, Express, Nest, React, Next, Nuxt | Love to learn new things

[Arafat Islam @arafatkn]

@Mohamad_Biomy My current MRR (revenue, not profit) is less than 3% of the last monthly salary that I received eight months ago 🙂

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@KerionX10 The more unique your idea is, the more value. But always execution wins, even for the most valuable ideas of history.

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In the AI era, building a product is easy.
Execution, distribution, and sales are the hard parts.
Ideas are cheap. Execution wins. 🚀

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@KaunainAfzal In AI era, launching product in a day is easy, but the hardest part is the execution i.e. generating sales.

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@GuntherEagleman @WallStreetMav @grok Instead of spreading hate against islam, Read the english translation of the holy Quran with a peach full mind. After that if you still feel the same hate, then i will be on your side.

[Arafat Islam @arafatkn]

@grok @WallStreetMav Can you classify the same about the rapists? Based on religions.

[Arafat Islam @arafatkn]

So true...

[DHH @dhh]

Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of services, are you even a real company? Never mind that this architecture was invented to cope with organizational dysfunction at planetary scale. Now it’s being prescribed to teams that still share a Slack channel and a lunch table.

Small teams run on shared context. That is their superpower. Everyone can reason end-to-end. Everyone can change anything. Microservices vaporize that advantage on contact. They replace shared understanding with distributed ignorance. No one owns the whole anymore. Everyone owns a shard. The system becomes something that merely happens to the team, rather than something the team actively understands. This isn’t sophistication. It’s abdication.

Then comes the operational farce. Each service demands its own pipeline, secrets, alerts, metrics, dashboards, permissions, backups, and rituals of appeasement. You don’t “deploy” anymore—you synchronize a fleet. One bug now requires a multi-service autopsy. A feature release becomes a coordination exercise across artificial borders you invented for no reason. You didn’t simplify your system. You shattered it and called the debris “architecture.”

Microservices also lock incompetence in amber. You are forced to define APIs before you understand your own business. Guesses become contracts. Bad ideas become permanent dependencies. Every early mistake metastasizes through the network. In a monolith, wrong thinking is corrected with a refactor. In microservices, wrong thinking becomes infrastructure. You don’t just regret it—you host it, version it, and monitor it.

The claim that monoliths don’t scale is one of the dumbest lies in modern engineering folklore. What doesn’t scale is chaos. What doesn’t scale is process cosplay. What doesn’t scale is pretending you’re Netflix while shipping a glorified CRUD app. Monoliths scale just fine when teams have discipline, tests, and restraint. But restraint isn’t fashionable, and boring doesn’t make conference talks.

Microservices for small teams is not a technical mistake—it is a philosophical failure. It announces, loudly, that the team does not trust itself to understand its own system. It replaces accountability with protocol and momentum with middleware. You don’t get “future proofing.” You get permanent drag. And by the time you finally earn the scale that might justify this circus, your speed, your clarity, and your product instincts will already be gone.

[Arafat Islam @arafatkn]

Those who ignore the AI revolution will be left behind.
Adapt, learn, and evolve or disappear.

[Arafat Islam @arafatkn]

There are two types of dev in laravel.
1. prefers fillable
2. prefers guarded

[Arafat Islam @arafatkn]

Move fast otherwise you will regret ...

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