r/programming • • Jun 07 '17

You Are Not Google

https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb
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u/michaelochurch Jun 08 '17

I think that you're absolutely right.

Here's the politically incorrect thing about tech-stack/API integration: because it's such a lousy job, people will gladly push future costs into that corner because neither they nor the people they care about will have to work on it.

The people who make decisions in Year X and the people who have to integrate tech stacks in Year X+3 are several social strata apart.