@kristijan_kralj What happened is very smart people that were English majors in college couldn't get jobs and became programmers along with people who consider coding as an artform rather than something that just gets compiled anyway. Combine academia loving it and calling it best practice
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.
@KrentPendleton@FOS I think that's just the list price of the helmet, not what the bar at F1 sells it for with the drinks. I'm sure one of those bottles he poured in they charge over 2k.
@AzureFunctions wow rolling updates is on in public preview. I don't understand why that isnt the first feature when making new versions. And flex consumption has all these odd rules, so glad I moved to gcp functions, I dont see anything here that would want me to go back
@TonyBellew@FightOdyssey1 This, Byrd said he had to eat a lot of bad foods to gain that weight, he shouldn't have gone up to heavy. Or possibly could have done it today with proper nutrition. He slowed down in his late 20s
My general macro thesis for years has been that we are entering a period of deglobalization, stagnation and deflationary pressure. I believe that is what we are seeing in the PMI cycle right now.
This new era is just starting to dawn on people. The lack of PMI cycle doesn't necessarily mean it will turn positive anytime soon. PMI could fall from here into greater contraction, but what does that mean for #bitcoin? $BTC has been expanding while PMI is contracting (below 50).
This chart is misleading. Where is the bitcoin implied pricing axis? It hides the inverse correlation of the last 3 years and makes it appear positive.
I ran three different correlation calcs, with the help of chatGPT.
1) PMI above 50 and rising compared to rising BTC. There was a -0.02 correlation, IOW no correlation to rising PMI above 50 and rising BTC.
2) PMI above 50 and falling compared to falling BTC. There was a -0.01 correlation, IOW no correlation.
3) PMI below 50 compared to change in BTC price. There was a -0.21 correlation, suggesting that when PMI is below 50 there is a slight negative correlation.
Next, I added lags. I tested if lagging BTC by 1, 2, or 3 months would make any correlation appear. It did not.
I added lags for PMI of 1, 2, and 3 months to see if bitcoin led. There was a very slight consistently positive correlation on each of these time frames, but nothing significant.
What I think this shows is that there is no statistical correlation here at all really. The apparent similarity is likely from another underlying variable or variables.
I did see a copy of the Browns play-sheet and it did have a section titled “harder plays when Sanders is in the game” … you might be right
Here’s the thing … teams do call different plays for different QBs in the preseason. Guys can handle different things. Sometimes a coach wants to see a QB do certain things in the preseason. Push a QB to take chances. Etc … we have no idea what the Browns wanted to see when Sanders was playing.
Nothing the Browns did or didn’t do is any different than 31 other teams did in the preseason at QB.
@SteveKim323 Like you say, activity matters. No one else is fighting. Just fix that, If Tank had 4 figths this year, no one would be bad mouthing this.
@GrulkeLamonte Don't like the wood color in the kitchen, nor the wood on the island and stone is too plain. Upper kitchen cabinets should go and put stone there too. Outside needs tile seemless to the pool, not concrete. Should have and overflow hottub as part of the pool, very dated look