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Death by a thousand microservices

Andrei Taranchenko says the software industry is learning once again that complexity kills, Casey Muratori outlines a long list of Unity alternatives, Filip Szkandera builds a functioning (macro) processor for RISC-V & Matt Basta tells the tale of the time he built a web-based Excel clone inside Uber only to have it discarded a week later.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - Intro
(00:44) - Death by a thousand microservices
(02:25) - Game development post-Unity
(03:34) - Sponsor: Sentry
(04:26) - Pineapple ONE
(05:52) - No sacred masterpieces
(06:59) - Pagefind
(08:07) - Outro

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