We may be the culmination of our experiences, but we view them through the lens of the present. If those folks had followed their own advice early on, they themselves would likely have suffered from it. Without understanding the context, the advice is meaningless, or even worse, harmful. “You need to build everything as microservices!” says the company who built a quick monolith, gained thousands of customers, and then pivoted into microservices as they started running into scaling issues. “You just need to charge more!” says the company who has been in business for 20 years and spent years charging “too little” to gain customers and become successful. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context.
Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat.
You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice.
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