I call this shit zero-sum optimization. In order to “optimize” for the desires of management, you always have to deoptimize something else.
Before AI became the tech craze du jour I had a VP get obsessed with microservices (because that’s what Netflix uses so it must be good). We had to tear apart a mature and very efficient app and turn it into hundreds of separate microservices… all of which took ~100 milliseconds to interoperate across the network. Pages that used to take 2 seconds to serve before now took 5 or 10 because of all the new latency required to do things they used to be able to basically for free. And it’s not like this was a surprise. We knew this was going to happen.
But hey, at least our app became more “modern” or whatever…
I call this shit zero-sum optimization. In order to “optimize” for the desires of management, you always have to deoptimize something else.
Before AI became the tech craze du jour I had a VP get obsessed with microservices (because that’s what Netflix uses so it must be good). We had to tear apart a mature and very efficient app and turn it into hundreds of separate microservices… all of which took ~100 milliseconds to interoperate across the network. Pages that used to take 2 seconds to serve before now took 5 or 10 because of all the new latency required to do things they used to be able to basically for free. And it’s not like this was a surprise. We knew this was going to happen.
But hey, at least our app became more “modern” or whatever…