[HN Gopher] Software Leviathans
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       Software Leviathans
        
       Author : mparramon
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2022-03-20 13:42 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | natmaka wrote:
       | Leopold Kohr explained the fundamental underlying causes in the
       | 1950's, this led to the "small is beautiful wave" twenty years
       | later, and we now rediscover them.
        
       | angarg12 wrote:
       | OP is conflating concepts in this piece. Large, poorly
       | maintained/designed codebases are difficult to work with, and
       | these tend to happen more in old, big companies. But large
       | companies can be extremely productive, and small companies can be
       | dragged by legacy code.
       | 
       | For example, I worked in 20+ years old services in small/medium
       | companies where a simple change took weeks to deploy, and where
       | most time was spent putting out fires. Conversely I worked in
       | green field projects in FAANG where we were able to deliver new
       | systems quickly.
       | 
       | It is also patently false engineers in FAANG are universally less
       | productive. Golden paths and internal frameworks mean in some
       | circumstances we can move really fast. It is also untrue you
       | always need to consider thousands of interactions and all changes
       | are painful. That's where well designed APIs isolate your
       | services from the rest of the world.
        
         | imachine1980_ wrote:
         | Or we'll designed monolithic, or well designed fp or well
         | designed op, I think we hate companies who use op as way to
         | make bricks for prisoners and not the paradigm in itself.
        
       | visaals wrote:
       | What software leviathans do you think are best at managing their
       | complexity?
        
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