Toots from 2023-09-25

@darkuncle Strong agree 👍 Also reminds me of McNamara f…

@darkuncle Strong agree 👍 Also reminds me of McNamara fallacy:

“But when the McNamara discipline is applied too literally, the first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. The second step is to disregard that which can’t easily be measured or given a quantitative value. The third step is to presume that what can’t be measured easily really isn’t important. The fourth step is to say that what can’t be easily measured really doesn’t exist. This is suicide.”

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The increased scale is the organization’s ability to explore new areas. “The number of deployed …

The increased scale is the organization’s ability to explore new areas.

“The number of deployed service instances has almost doubled over the past 22 months…

Instances’ rate of increase is due to new business use cases rather than increased scale”

Huye, Darby, Yuri Shkuro, Meta Raja, and R. Sambasivan. n.d. “Lifting the Veil on Meta’s Microservice Architecture: Analyses of Topology and Request Workflows.” Accessed July 19, 2023. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc23-huye.pdf.