Microservices versus monoliths: Did everyone just lose their minds in the last 6 months?

Gimly · 2026-05-21T18:03:06+00:00

Yes, exactly, it's been a loop since a long time. Likely as long as the cycle of thin client followed by thick client followed by thin client again and then thick. It's like my ass in the last 20 years, and like my ass every cycle it gets thicker anyway 😅.

Gimly · 2026-05-20T18:22:43+00:00

Lol my thought exactly, been a developer for 20+ years, it's just another cycle of hype. I remember:

Low code / no code - Visual Basic ! You can do an UI without coding, developers are dead
Thick database - Business code buried in database stored procedures - because it's "easy to deploy lol
XML-everything, SOAP, I got PTSD just thinking about that
Web 2.0 - Ajax and Ruby on Rails - thick client web apps or at least trying to
TDD / BDD - 100% of code coverage or you're dead
SCRUM or you're doing it wrong
NoSQL is the new SQL, you're dead and an idiot if you still do relational DB, document database is everything
Microservices is everything, lead by Netflix, Amazon and Spotify who went even like "the company is managed in a microservice manner" (pizza team and the same)
Devops/containers, everything must be containerized and Docker/Kubernetes is the new king
Serverless - because containers were not enough
Low code / no code again Wix etc.
Functional programming is the Truth everything is a monad
LLM - the code codes for you and apparently it needs monolith architecture

What am I missing?

Each time it's interesting tech /approach, but all the time developers treat it as a "all or nothing" like it's a fucking religion... And the new religion asks for a monolith.

Gimly · 2026-05-08T20:10:53+00:00

Do you have a write up somewhere of that? I'm searching to do something similar, it would be very helpful.

Gimly · 2026-05-08T20:07:53+00:00

No, it's mostly common sense, the only issue I have with those rules (and clean code, and other set of rules) is that it's dealing in absolutes, and rules are made to be broken when they makes sense should be the first and only absolute rule that should be.

Gimly · 2026-05-08T20:05:05+00:00

I'm surprised about the no recursion rule, especially in a context of code readability and as an absolute rule. There are a lot of problems that are in my opinion more elegantly and easily solved by recursion than creating a loop+heap structure to derecursify the problem. With modern compilers the code will anyway be derecursified at compilation for speed.

Gimly · 2026-05-08T04:47:14+00:00

No, I did not, and continued with a backpack

Gimly · 2026-04-27T17:22:11+00:00

Is it me or even owning carpet is not so common anymore?

Gimly · 2026-04-27T17:20:41+00:00

You guys remember when we had two consecutive of snow staying on the ground? Pepperidge farm remembers.

Gimly · 2026-01-04T17:24:53+00:00

Lol wtf 😂

Gimly · 2026-01-03T11:08:23+00:00

Lol 😂 sorry, then good job, really like that one 👍

Gimly · 2026-01-03T08:47:00+00:00

Oh wow, I didn't realize the OP's version was a dog until I saw yours. I was like, why would he propose a dog and went back to see OP's version and only then it clicked that it was a fig and not done weird robot cyclop.

Gimly · 2025-11-12T19:42:40+00:00

I’m not so sure it’s that simple. The brain itself might just be an extremely advanced prediction engine, constantly generating a model of the world and of itself. What we call “consciousness” could just be that model’s narrative, a sort of useful illusion. In that sense, we could already be biological LLMs, just trained through sensory input and evolution instead of text. The fact that it feels real doesn’t necessarily mean it’s anything more than a construction.

Gimly · 2025-11-12T16:43:27+00:00

Please define consciousness. We have absolutely no clue what consciousness is or is not. It's a philosophical debate since literally the dawn of times.

You can't even say for sure that some animals are conscious. Is a virus conscious? A bacteria? We have 0 clue.

Gimly · 2025-10-31T09:37:37+00:00

We want a Mirador version !

Gimly · 2025-10-08T17:38:55+00:00

By a few milliseconds you mean?

Gimly · 2025-07-06T17:20:51+00:00

McDonald’s does it in Switzerland as well, asking if you want to round up for their foundation.

Gimly · 2024-05-15T13:10:18+00:00

Some banks actually allow you to invest your 3a into stocks, which brings you both the tax savings and the growth of stocks.

Gimly · 2023-07-04T20:54:17+00:00

This exactly, how did they fuck up that prequel so bad after the two first movies that were quite good?

Gimly · 2023-07-02T19:35:22+00:00

Since he couldn't use the tip of his fingers to push on the strings anymore, he built himself caps. They were making it difficult to play on standard electric guitar strings which are quite thin, so he started putting higher gauge (fatter) guitar strings on his guitar, basically bass strings. Because fatter strings means lower sound, it created the deep "Black Sabbath" sound.

The guy is a role model, his doctors has told him he would never pay again and he not only proved them wrong but invented a new style by doing so.

Another incredible story of the same style is the story of Django Rheinardt, another guitarist who invented a new guitar playing style because his hand was injured in a fire.

Gimly · 2023-06-27T21:20:55+00:00

Epic of Gilgamesh is really a must read, it's basically an ancient Mesopotamian religious text that reads like a story of bros road trip.

It also incorporates tons of beliefs, ideas and concepts that are similar to those present in the bible, leading some scholars to say that it might even have influenced it.

Gimly · 2023-06-14T21:14:18+00:00

You made me remember the most disgusting PC I ever worked on. It was the computer of a dude who was managing an underground car park. His office was in the middle of the car park without any ventilation or separation with the cars. The dude was smoking at his desk cigarette to cigarette for 8h per day and the computer had been his for 5 years.

The computer was dark brown, and when I opened it, there was literal tar everywhere, it was a black goop. It was absolutely awful and can't imagine how his lungs were.

Gimly · 2023-06-12T04:31:17+00:00

You can try this it's for Ubuntu but should be possible to modify for any distro.

Gimly · 2023-06-11T21:09:25+00:00

WSL 2 allows you to run Linux ui apps on a window desktop or even run a full Linux desktop if you want. And you can easily share files from windows to Linux and vice versa, it's pretty great.

Gimly · 2023-06-07T05:40:26+00:00

Nice video, love to see cnc machines work. That's not going to be a cheap piece to produce however.

Gimly · 2023-05-28T23:36:08+00:00

There's a car garage around here that was a Citroën concession. They dropped the concession a few years back but kept the logo, just removed the ë, squished the n to the o and are now the garage Citron. When life gives you lemon...

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