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I would think Lint rules are better for encouraging this and has no run time implications. Easy escape hatches as well if you really want to crack the firewall to ship something urgently.

Everything old is new again.

Have a customer with a 25 y/o Oracle PL/SQL system that basically operates their business and they can barely iterate on it. Every year a new consultancy comes in with their flavour of microservices and tries to subsume some functionality and they choke on the monolith to end all monoliths.

The philosophy you are espousing is known in literary theory as "Death of the Author".

argues against the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author's identity to distill meaning from the author's work.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author

I recommend Lindsay Ellis' video on the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGn9x4-Y_7A

Many of the golden age authors rage from "just" problematic like Asimov to a lot worse (see for more: http://www.jasonsanford.com/blog/2018/2/golden-age-sf-not-go...). I still read these authors but I for one cannot help see the author in their books, and knowledge of their actions certainly influences how I interpret these books. I therefore don't believe in Death of the Author.

Unbundling AWS 7 years ago

I've not come across the term JAMstack before, why doesn't this make sense for using with AWS as the author suggests?

you should be able to do all API Management without having to pay us a penny.

I contacted Kong sales once about OpenID connect support, they basically dismissed us as too small. Needless to say we took Kong out of our stack and won't consider it again.

C++, Rust, and D have a large number of features and it can be distracting from the actual meaning of the application you are working on.

I've just started working in Rust and found it to have the right number of features compared to C++.

Loose prequel to my favourite book of all time A Fire Upon the Deep. Vinge is a brilliant author with a background in maths and computing and it shows in his writing.