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No worries, we have since moved on and people who cant write more than 2000 coherent lines of code have invented a new solution called microservices. Now you can have very simple services that don’t turn into a mess!

Well that’s the idea anyway, but it always turns into a mess and then I have been using a new term to describe it: spaghetti over http

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It's the same Big Ball of Mud architecture.

It's just implemented over YAML (what a great programming language!) and has crunchy microservices inside! (I'm not sure I want to know what the crunchy bits in a ball of mud are).

Well, as a BBoM rolls on down through a village, it tends to accumulate various trinkets and detritus from smashed buildings, along with the broken bones and teeth of the people it obliterates, along with their pets and livestock, and any nearby wild fauna.

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