Gbemi Adekanmbi

Jesus' baby.🌻
Living, loving & building @ForCre8iveGirls (Mentorship, Members, across 15+ countries).
Scratching the nerdiest of my itches per time.

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

Pretty much. 😂😂

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

Monolith: "all my bugs are in one place."
Microservices: "My bugs are distributed for scalability."

[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.

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

@gojoel_ 😅😅

[Olivia Moore @omooretweets]

I've spent the last two years studying consumer AI trends.

Yesterday, our team @a16z published our latest report on the top 100 AI products (by usage).

My biggest surprises - and what to learn from them ⬇️

[Origo @origoinvest]

Here is the clip of @AnthropicAI CEO talking about the LLM Business Model:

@HighyieldHarry

[For Creative Girls @ForCre8iveGirls]

Tems Just Dropped the Ultimate Music Mentorship Program for African Women – And Applications Close Soon!

https://t.co/uUC4jKZtVB Check it out here ☝️

[Venco: Estate/ Property Management Solutions @vencohq]

Kiswahili si lugha tu. Ni sauti ya familia, ya jamii yetu, ya bara letu.
Today, we celebrate the voice that unites.
#KiswahiliDay #TheVoiceOfAContinent #VencoLife

[Emmanuel Paul @eruskkii]

How the enterprising Engineers at African fintechs and payment companies build the infrastructure to move money around, even when there's no internet.

Find out more in @FinanceinAF's latest engineering deep dive.

The comments

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

💎💎💎
https://t.co/AMuV1bX3hd

[Steven Adler @sjgadler]

Anthropic announced they've activated "Al Safety Level 3 Protections" for their latest model. What does this mean, and why does it matter?

Let me share my perspective as OpenAl's former lead for dangerous capabilities testing. (Thread)

[Emmanuel Paul @eruskkii]

If you’re building payments in Nigeria, you’re building on NIBSS—whether you know it or not.

We @FinanceinAF did a technical breakdown for the pros building payments products in Nigeria.

@gbemi_lolade spoke to engineering and product leads who helped us break down everything from APIs and switching logic, and JSON code samples for key interactions.

Full breakdown in the comments

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

Hold that thought is holding my beer.

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

❤️❤️ such a beautiful, wholesome thread.

https://t.co/B53GzckQaS

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

Me to the ants on my gas cooker: gather round for your death sentence.
(proceeds to light them up)🔥

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

@cowrywise I've now sent you a DM

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

@cowrywise I sent an email 4 days ago! No response, nothing.

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

Why does this "See less often" grammar on X bother me so much?

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

@BeGracious_ 🤣

[enebax @BeGracious_]

When I’m not speaking about my faith or ranting about F1, I’m really into policy.

I’ve recently started @Parlicy101 where I briefly explain parliament & policy in the simplest of terms so everyone can understand the ‘complex’ world & words of government.

Please follow. ❤️

[Gbemi Adekanmbi @Gbemi_Lolade]

God abeg. I'm stressed.

OpenAI and urging the U.S. government to allow AI companies train on copyrighted material under fair use. 🤝
https://t.co/eZYjjEJpVy