Dimitar Mihaylov

Product Engineer ▫️2x Dad▫️Husband▫️LEGO Fan

[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.

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@deezel Yes, latest version of @bbteam supports it. I just forgot how we did it, but you may check the code. 🙂

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@jasonfried @dhh Will you make cult ads like the ones in your old office ~20 years ago? 🙂

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[Kevin Lee @kevinleeme]

Did not realize how physically and mentally exhausting it would be to care for 2 under 2 from 5-8PM every night. It takes extreme willpower for a parent to come back to their computer after the kids are asleep to start cranking on work again. Shoutout to all the parents.

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@deezel I don't exclude the possibility of me getting just old. 😄

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@deezel Thing is, the bar is higher and I wouldn't expect them to not be able to release a beta so far away from desired final version.

I believe it's kind of on purpose and the purpose is the one I'm missing here. All the buzz around it ... maybe?

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

The era of "social" media has come to an end. It's been replaced by "algorithmic media".

Social media showed you what your friends were sharing. Algorithmic media draws from the global pool of media, finds the content most likely to hook your attention and shows it to you regardless of whether you wanted to see it or not.

You are no longer in a bubble of ideas shared by your friends and collaborators. You are in a bubble of outrageous, shocking, fast-hooking, colourful, loud, mesmerising, suspenseful and dopamine inducing ideas.

[Ankur Nagpal @ankurnagpal]

My longevity theory:

You’ll live a better (& likely longer) life escaping America and living by the beach someplace with real food, wine and friendship

Than over optimizing your Oura, cold plunge & supplement stack while living an ultimately stressful life in SF/NYC/LA

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth:

December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia.

February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness.

July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden.

February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically.

U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war.

~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff.

The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP.

America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates.

Slava Ukraina.

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@jasonfried I’m probably in this list and would love to receive your (and @dhh) posts in my imbox.

Summarized or aggregated. As simple as that.

Currently I need to rely on declining social media’s algorithm to make sure I won’t miss them.

[Mario Peshev @no_fear_inc]

Back from the Sofia polling station after the 7th government election in just 3 years - and keeping a close eye on November 5th.

👉 For all gen Zs (or "Zoomers") who see this, here's why politics matter.

It's been a turbulent period filled with insecurity. Political instability is never good news - it keeps everyone on their toes, businesses reluctant to invest and employees scrolling the news during business hours, distracted from what they're supposed to do.

Tension at home at night while arguing about the "breaking news" 📺.

The global madness out there is largely a byproduct of government-driven choices led by parties elected by each and every one of us.

🌍 Failing to execute our right to vote has GLOBAL consequences.

When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, we traveled to my grandparents for a day or two every few weeks, spending some family time, warm weekends running around the house and winters near the fireplace.

My granddad was always absent at 7:30pm sharp or having us keep quiet for 30min while the news were running, just like clockwork, before dinner time at 8pm.

Keeping up with politics was non-negotiable, while my younger teen self felt the waste of time and attention on actions you are in no control of.

📩 Yes, I have been voting regularly since I turned 18, and I've been lucky enough to visit the Europen Parliament and EU Commission in Brussels, Maastricht and Schengen in the Netherlands and Luxembourg where critical treaties were signed, the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, and other monumental places that make global politics possible.

I've been to the Buckingham Palace in London and the Emancipation Memorial in Boston before it was taken down.

All the global opportunities we enjoy today are possible thanks to treaties and world leaders working together. All the global conflicts and ongoing wars are a byproduct of political misalignments and extreme leaders.

We're all involved in this puzzle and responsible for what happens - not just voting, but staying informed and educated, conducting critical and thoughtful conversations with peers and family, and participating in causes and initiatives that make the society better one step at a time.

Voting is both a right and a responsibility, and our future depends on it.

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@ypetrova Има entrepreneurs, има и intrapreneurs, така че прескачането от единия в другия бряг (и обратно) е напълно нормална, възможна и, спрямо моя опит, полезна крачка.

Който мисли, че корп. свят е нещо като Ада на Данте, вероятно никога не е правил бизнес сам от-до.

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@no_fear_inc Do you think a revert in algorithms is possible at all?

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@no_fear_inc YOLO! 😊

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@no_fear_inc Done! 🙌

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@neportuqua Легенда! И още пуска с дискове, яко. 🙂

[Dimitar Mihaylov @dmihaylov]

@alphacolin Good choice! I love mine.

Limited by design, great writing experience and a go-to device for all of my thoughts, sketching and planning.

It comes with simple app to sync your notes across other devices as well.