What Dan Luu thinks about simplicity

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Programmer who has worked on hardware verification at Centaur, on infrastructure at Microsoft and Google, and latterly at Wave. He writes long, data-heavy posts at danluu.com that test the software industry's folk wisdom against whatever evidence can actually be found.

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1. 6 Apr 2022

   Our readingEven at top-100 traffic levels most applications can be served by a simple monolith, and it is cheaper to build than a complex architecture.

   Their wordscomputers are fast enough that high-traffic apps can be served with simple architectures, which can generally be created more cheaply and easily than complex architectures

   ↗In defense of simple architecturesdanluu.com 1st of 3 in this piece

3. 6 Apr 2022

   Our readingConference programmes and the tech press over-represent complex architectures, so teams copy techniques their scale does not need.

   Their wordsDespite the unreasonable effectiveness of simple architectures, most press goes to complex architectures.

   ↗In defense of simple architecturesdanluu.com 2nd of 3 in this piece