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I for one, feel the same way when someone tells me they are building "microservices" for a small application that they don't ever plan to scale to that levels. IMO, amongst us, there is a wide-spread issue of "Here's the new cool thing - My application/system has to do it". The other day, a friend was talking on and on about setting up a Hadoop cluster for what I saw as a one-time use batch script.


And? Did you try to talk your friend out of it?


Yes, I sent him this to read, http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-tha...

and he changed his mind :-)




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