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[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

There's also a whole lot of abstraction layers in software these days. All kinds of frameworks, no code platforms, scripts and engines ask introduce their own delays when running software, all added to make time to market a bit shorter or just because of some tech fetish.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Lol, "the C Programming language is an abstraction of assembly and I for one, won't have it!"

Some of those frameworks and no code platform bloat are because of that. Most are there to make working on large multi team software projects feasible.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's not the first time one team makes a module with an API. The other team needs a few lines of data from that module but the filter in the API is bad, so just retrieve millions of rows and apply your own filter to get the two rows. There is no event trigger, so keep polling those two lines every second. Multiply with dozens of modules and a bunch of politics that refuse to make changes and you get a very sluggish application.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sure yeah, this stuff happens all the time, and often persists until people start noticing the application being sluggish and they go and investigate and fix the slow points.

Alternatively you have tightly integrated software that only one team can work on and it takes years to come out and every time a feature needs to change its another 6 month job of reworking everything, and debugging and fixing security issues is a nightmare.

In most systems, not just computers, there's a tradeoff between a highly integrated and high performance design, vs a modularized loosely coupled one that's more adaptable and resilient.

Just look at automotives, Teslas have a unibody design that makes them cheap to build and low weight, that also makes them enormously expensive to repair and impossible to find aftermarket parts for.

Choosing maximally integrated is rarely the best path, there is always a middle ground, and one important difference between the paths is that it's usually easier to go from modular to integrated than vice versa.