'100-Line SQL Is Unmaintainable, Five Services Is Architecture'
tekbog · x · 2026-09-13
A widely resonant quip: a 100-line SQL query is deemed unmaintainable, yet splitting the same logic across five services and a message queue is called architecture.
Replying, tekbog says companies have a really good reason for doing this, and if you don't know why, you should stay on your monolith and it will be fine — a classic software-engineering culture debate.
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