No Silver Bullets

I thoroughly enjoyed the advice given in Scaling with common sense, probably because I’ve violated each of those principles at various times in my career, and are (hopefully) wiser for doing so.

But the real gem was a link to the following sketch:

I’ve been in that meeting, both as the speaker, and as the listener. Whenever I hear someone say “just move to microservices” like it’s some kind of magic spell that instantly fixes all problems, I want to go full-on Andy Bernard and punch a hole in the wall.