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Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases (www.seangoedecke.com)
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
  • Single-digit million lines of code (~5M, let’s say)
  • Somewhere between 100 and 1000 engineers working on the same codebase
  • The first working version of the codebase is at least ten years old

Things like this is where the company can save money by scraping it and start from scratch, this time doing it right.

[–] towerful 5 points 1 week ago

And in rust!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Or at the very least, so long as its http driven, put a proxy in front and on the backend break up common features into microservices. With a proxy the consumers will have pretty much no idea they went from talking to one service to a dozen.