dax @thdxr

i am pro using services

but they’re rarely the services mentioned on twitter - there’s a huge misconception here

the idea behind a “serviceful” architecture is you offload day to day undifferentiated operational tedium to a service provider

this tends to be things like databases, queues, eventbuses, etc - things that would require constant attention from you otherwise (people under estimate this)

i am no longer running mysql, rabbitmq, kafka or scaling my own containers on servers

however it seems people are trying to apply this logic to services that only help you avoid a one time cost

they also save you time, but just once by delivering a specific feature earlier

there’s no ongoing time saved but there is ongoing cost + rigidity

saving one time cost isn’t that important to me and even when i want to open source libraries tend to do this well specifically because these aren’t things with operational costs

May 2, 2023 View on X →

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