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That in itself will not be a terrible problem. If it's well-documented at the macro an micro level, and if those micro-services are coded according to the "principle of least astonishment" - it will likely be easier than some million-line code silo.

B-U-T... All those if's probably don't hold. Good luck, future code monkeys!

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> If it's well-documented

Well-documented is the biggest lie of any project. Unless you document it that is, in which case it's the only well-documented project.

My code is perfectly documented. I just choose to write my documentation in c++. :)

Sure... It’s just that C++ is not the best language to write documentation in.

Ah, I might be mistaken... The biggest lie might not be "it's well documented," but "it's self documenting" :))

If million-line code silo is well-documented at the macro an micro level and coded according to the "principle of least astonishment", it will be easy to maintain too.

With micro-services and a lot of use of (FOSS) infrastructure, there is hopefully a lot less code that's actually part of your own project/app/framework.

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