Microservices is a confidence scam
DHH's polemic on why small teams shatter their own superpower — shared context — and call the debris architecture.
Six paragraphs on why Netflix-shaped infrastructure is process cosplay for a team that still shares lunch. Later he admitted a prompt wrote this version. The argument still holds, which is its own thread.
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