Hacker News Reader

Comment by eole666 | Hacker News Reader

Maybe before buying M3 MacBook for everyone you should consider splitting your 1M line code base to avoid recompiling the whole thing for every change.. I don't know well the go ecosystem at all but it seems to me you should really consider optimizing your code base for compilation speed before creating fancy build time chart per cpu with AI and buying hundreds of super powerfull and expensive machines to compile it a bit faster...

View on HN

We do frequently adjust the codebase to improve build times, but the developer productivity hit we’d take by splitting our app into several microservices would be much more substantial than much slower build times than we currently see.

We’re super happy with 30s as an average build time right now. Assume we spent about £50k for the entire teams laptops, how much time would an engineer need to break our monolith into microservices? How much extra investment would we need to make it work as well as our monolith, or debug production issues that are now much more complex?

I’d wager it’s much more than half an engineers time continually, at which point you’ve blown the money you saved on a solution that works far less well for dev productivity and debugging simplicity in production.

Maybe you could split the code base without going full micro service. Keep the monolith base, and split some parts in independent module/libraries that won't be rebuild every time, something like that.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com