Comments by "John Smith" (@JohnSmith-op7ls) on "ByteByteGo" channel.

Programming content creators: Want to know how companies you’ll never work for do things the companies you will work for don’t need to do?
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@TheBigOTech I’m not saying the technologies aren’t used by businesses of all sizes. Message queues have been around forever and have their place even in fairly simple systems as they’re as useful for decoupling and fault tolerance as they are for scaling. I’m referring to so many programming content creators click baiting with content on how a handful of companies in a small class of high scale demand do things. Why not go into how these technologies are useful and implemented in systems that the other 99.9999% of companies would need.
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@matonolo You are just mad because you likely wasted lots of time watching videos like this which will never make your job easier, make you more money, or help you land a job to begin with. But hey, you get to tell yourself you’re smart because you watched some short video on some super high level overview of how some big company uses something. Maybe next you can spend tons of time learning how people worth over $50b structure their finances to minimize tax liabilities. I’m sure that’ll be equally useful for you and you’ll feel even smarter!
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Never heard anyone call a callback/postback a webhook. Is this the all too common case of tech bros feeling the need to give old concepts new names because they just discovered it and think if it’s new to them, it must be new to everyone else? Callbacks were a term before the WWW was a thing.
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@oskarszwajkowski Trend casing, when you need an excuse to not do real work
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@JohnnySacc Microservices are massively overused and overhyped for the same reason I brought up earlier, people talking about how [insert big tech company that isn’t you here] is using them. They’re useful when used properly, which they often are not. But my point has nothing to do with whether or not these technologies have some place in smaller companies. The issue is selling the implementation cases for them at companies operating at scales almost no other companies are and even the ones that are, probably only have one to a handful of systems that do. It’s pushing the nonsense that because some big company uses something for a thing, every dev needs to know that thing and how to use it the same way. That’s BS.
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@br.3250 Sure, but talking about how and why they’re implemented at companies that operate at scales only 0.0001% of companies encounter is just clickbait. It’s like making videos targeted at average earners explaining how people worth over a billion dollars structure their finances and mentioning that they use banks, stocks, properties, and charitable donations.
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@InternetDoggo Because you’re one of the inexperienced tech bros who showed up late to the game and never learned any history
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@qm3ster You handle millions of real-time transactions every second at home? Where, in your brain?
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@obsidiansiriusblackheart Then why do you need a video to tell you what you should already know
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@__aveiga It flat out starts by saying it will show you how companies, naming some big tech companies, process millions of transactions per second.
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@__aveiga Hence my comment that it’s clickbait. Even that aside it’s not a good overview so why defend it
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@jb5631 I addressed that in at least one of my earlier comments on this thread. I never said only the biggest companies use this technology. I said only they will use them as this video is describing and it’s this which is being used as the clickbait to get you to watch. And these technologies don’t just automatically scale from dozens of hundreds of transactions per second to millions or more. So there’s a tangible difference in how they’re implemented at those larger scales. Yeah, you can use a queue or message stream setup at low scale for various reasons but it’s not the same implementation. Point is, for 99.999% of the potential audience, this stuff is clickbait. They’re not going to be working on system architecture for Google Search or something along those lines. If you’re one of the few, great, disregard my comments.
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