I'm finally working on my first microservices project of my career, and so far most design decisions have been aimed at centralization (monorepo, central GraphQL API).

I'm starting to believe microservices sounds good in theory but has absolutely no business being implemented in its purest form.

Also the Make command to build the local Docker environment can take up to 15 minutes to run on a M1 Macbook Pro. And because the environment uses an AWS token that expires every day, the command needs to be ran every day you may be working on the project. This is such an incomprehensible waste to me, have I already reached the end of my career in software development?

#DevLife #Programming

For several months now I've been the only one left working on a project at work and for several months deployments issues on this project have increased. Coincidence? I think not. Since I'm the only one left programming, there hasn't been any meaningful code review for a few months either. It's not enough to have another pair of eyeballs looking at your code if they aren't familiar with it.

Still feels bad to have end users bear the brunt of this though.

#DevLife #Development #Programming

I love feature removal tasks, it feels very Mary Kondo-ish.

#Programming #DevLife #Development

• Need the configuration to instantiate a logger.
  
• Need a logger to instantiate the configuration.

This is so true it hurts. #Development #Programming #DevLife

“XKCD: Code Lifespan”

Code Lifespan

^xkcd