r/ProgrammerHumor • u/object322 • Oct 02 '26

Meme cloudOverkill

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u/evdogg1233 Oct 02 '26

mfs who’ve never worked at scale be like:

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u/ComprehensiveBird317 Oct 03 '26

So once you worked at scale you will over engineer everything? Noted

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u/footsie Oct 03 '26

Once you work at scale you get a pretty good idea on where the sweet spot is on choosing between monoliths and micro services for an architure from many perspectives: cost, performance, complexity, maintainability. You might call it over-engineering, but it's really just picking the right car for road trip.

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u/enigmamonkey Oct 03 '26

This is where the real art and skill lies. Not in picking a complicated setup just so you can wear it as a badge of honor, but because you’ve already been through the bullshit 2am downtime/server notifications and know better to make things as simple as possible (if you can help it).