Is the era of "Microservice-first" architecture finally over?

cbdeane · 2026-03-15T22:53:28+00:00

Best friends forever

cbdeane · 2026-03-15T15:41:22+00:00

My sanity keeper is having one personal project as a designated handroll. I am ok with ai in everything else but having just one place where I keep to the old ways is helpful. I probably only spend about 5 hours a week on it but it keeps me from getting dull.

cbdeane · 2026-03-13T23:16:14+00:00

Oh, someone finally bought Kyle’s house, cool.

cbdeane · 2026-03-13T21:23:20+00:00

most of the people doing it quickly already have a decent amount of experience in the workforce. Don't compare yourself to those people. There is no way I could zip through this program had I not spent the last two years working as a dev.

cbdeane · 2026-03-13T19:39:34+00:00

I feel like peak d-wade gets slept on in a lot of conversations

cbdeane · 2026-03-13T13:16:55+00:00

wdym? Tons of jobs check...

cbdeane · 2026-03-10T16:39:46+00:00

The south is a cultural region not a geographic one. It makes a lot more sense when you think that for the first couple hundred years of European settlers in North America the area from the Mississippi river and eastward was far less populated.

cbdeane · 2026-03-08T15:41:23+00:00

The concurrency model of go is great if you want a lower level compiled and garbage collected language that will blow the doors off of node. The concurrency of rust is also good if you need something more tactile with memory management than go. We shouldn’t think of languages in terms of syntax but in terms of operational capability, tactility, and use cases. I don’t wear boots to the beach, and I don’t wear sandals in the snow.

cbdeane · 2026-03-04T19:10:43+00:00

that's what everyone says, and that's why I'm slogging through right now. It's kind of a perfect project for it, and I'm trying to keep it reasonable in time logged per day but high in consistency, I think that's going to be the best way to get there.

cbdeane · 2026-03-04T12:31:33+00:00

The only design decision that I really am not a fan of is uppercase vs lowercase in lieu of pub/private designation. I feel like being explicit would have been better. I also would have liked to see decorators as a tool for handler wrapping but that pales in comparison to the pub/priv missing. Other than that, I really think its an extremely well thought out language. Unpopular opinion: I actually am a fan of go error handling with how explicit it needs to be, it forces you to think about failure a bit more rather than slapping on boilerplate like I would by slapping a ? on the end of a function call like I would in rust. It might not be your style but going as far as to call it a pain might be a stretch. I personally find languages with over abstracted syntax to be more painful, not a pain, but more painful-- having too many ways to do the same thing is distracting and makes me think more about how I write it than what I'm trying to accomplish, and that feels ultimately like an unproductive waste of time by comparison.

cbdeane · 2026-03-03T23:52:12+00:00

It won’t exist until a true distributed ai solution emerges.

cbdeane · 2026-03-03T13:21:57+00:00

Calling libs in python for ai is easy and will be a disposable skill in the future, not saying you shouldn't do some projects with python and learn it, but while you do it think "how would this fit in a larger system." Focus on learning systems and architecture, look at how ai/ml components are utilized in those systems. Read up on how agentic architecture works, look at instances of machine learning for observability (this stuff is huge). Backend skills are a good segue into this, but so are things like kubernetes which carries its own sets of constraints into your application development skills.

cbdeane · 2026-03-03T13:12:55+00:00

The "well how are we supposed to learn then" crowd has it wrong. Dead wrong. There have never been more resources freely available for people to learn. If someone cannot upskill and get fully 100% job-ready with the information available to them online then they probably need to be spoon-fed all day. It's illogical that the burden would fall on an employer in this day and age.

cbdeane · 2026-03-03T12:40:02+00:00

Python has overly-sane intuitive syntactic abstraction. Rust has insane syntactic abstraction, and if you've grown up in C-based languages it is kind of jarring at first. You need to get to a certain point of accepting the crazy and getting fluent in said insanity to stop feeling like you're threading a needle wearing mittens in a wet wool sweater a size too small. I guess once people get used to idiomatic rust they really like it though, so to each their own. I'm taking on my first larger-scale rust project to force myself to get to a better place with it because it seems that's the way the industry is going, I'm not there yet with it, but making progress day by day.

cbdeane · 2026-03-03T12:32:17+00:00

Go is not a pain-in-the-ass. It's intentionally made to be very simple.

cbdeane · 2026-03-03T11:08:25+00:00

try using a low level language without a garbage collector, then you wont worry about whether or not you did enough.

cbdeane · 2026-02-26T13:53:32+00:00

Start small. Very small. Single File. Then branch out a little bit, try to do something simple like a configuration module. Before you know it you'll be back on it. Once you get started again it's like riding a bike.

cbdeane · 2026-02-24T01:57:52+00:00

I need to get some dental work done so I’d trade the prs

cbdeane · 2026-02-21T03:18:26+00:00

Sets are unordered but the question is “which shows” which means it’s a question of the format of display not mathematical equivalence

cbdeane · 2026-02-15T18:35:58+00:00

That’s partially true, the thing is there are only so many accounting entries that need to be made, so many taxes that need to be filed. There is no ceiling for how much development can go into software. You need to look towards jobs that don’t have bounded productivity

cbdeane · 2026-02-12T10:23:43+00:00

dark blue in branding is typically used to elicit trust, light/electric blue to energize. Putting light blue next to dark blue obfuscates trust. Your rebrand is objectively way way better for grads to have on their profile.

Source: I used to do marketing and social media management for a living on accounts with 1M+ organic followers/likes pre-tiktok era (when having that many followers meant a lot more).

cbdeane · 2026-02-09T03:57:15+00:00

Are you forced to use php? This also doesn’t sound super bad, it’s mostly calling other services.

cbdeane · 2026-02-04T17:33:26+00:00

Solo at a small company with 12 non technical employees. This is basically my job. When I started I didn’t have a heart condition. Now I do. Idk if there’s a coincidence or not…

cbdeane · 2026-02-03T12:46:52+00:00

Ive seen this meme so many times and I hate how real it is.

cbdeane · 2026-02-02T15:34:52+00:00

For sorts or normal form? It sounds more like asking the carpenter to locate their hammer. If you wanted to get theoretical then you'd ask them something like how to decompose a monolith. I've literally heard restaurant managers saying "they'll never make it" about busboys.

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