[lpapez]

> Are there really people out there who still reach for Meta-scale by default? Who start with microservices?

Anecdotally, the last three greenfield projects I was a part of, the Architects (distinct people in every case) began the project along the lines of "let us define the microservices to handle our domains".

Every one of those projects failed, in my opinion not primarily owing to bad technical decisions - but they surely didn't help either by making things harder to pivot, extend and change.

Clean Code ruined a generation of engineers IMO.

[robertlagrant]

I think this sounds more like Domain Driven Design than Clean Code.

[ahoka]

It kinda started with Clean Code. I remember some old colleagues walking around with the book in their hand and deleting ten year old comments in every commit they made: "You see, we don't need that anymore, because the code describes itself". It made a generation (generations?) of software developers think that all the architectural patterns were found now, we can finally do real engineering and just have to find the one that fits for the problem at hand! Everyone asked the SOLID principles during interviews, because that's how real engineers design! I think "cargo cult" was getting used at that time too to describe this phenomenon.