Comments by "Vincent Jenks" (@VincentJenks) on "Uncovering Stack Overflow's Shocking Architecture" video.

  1. Great reminder that engineers are gonna over-engineer. Even senior professionals are often too quick too chase the shiny new hotness, and do what’s trendy. Monoliths are fine for far more than they get credit for, and usually a good way to start a project, at the very least. Keep design and tooling simple, and minimalistic, with the idea that you might break the monolith up, later on. We’re drowning in trends, tooling, configuration, overly-complex architecture, and general over-engineering. Very few of us are building anything that requires all this stuff. We’re not all Google and Amazon!
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