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Monitoring the decline of software engineering. Documenting Entropy. For research purposes, mostly. A fun side project by @vanto.bsky.social.

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We received two excellent additions to the archive recently.

Both submissions have one in common: Excessive Granularity. We are observing teams drowning in repositories and pipelines, all in the name of "decoupling."

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Stylized “worst-of-breed” architecture card titled “The Nano-Service Swarm.” A microscope icon appears in the center. Metrics show Latency 95/100, Pain 90/100, Maintain 5/100, and Resume “FAANG Aspirant.” A sarcastic quote reads: “We shouldn’t just refactor the User Module; let’s put the DateFormatter into its own container so we can scale date parsing independently.” A highlighted box labeled “The HTTP Overhead Amplifier” explains that a 2ms in-memory function call is turned into a 400ms chain of failed network handshakes and JSON serialization errors. Analysis page for “Nano-Service-Swarm,” dated 2026-01-21, tagged with Microservices, Distributed Monolith, Over-Engineering, and Infra. The text humorously critiques an architecture where every logical component, down to utility classes, is deployed as its own Docker container with a REST API. It explains that attempts at extreme decoupling result in tightly coupled synchronous HTTP calls, with a single user login triggering dozens of network requests across many services managed by an overwhelmed team.
January 21, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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WoB PATTERN: K8s for a Static Site

"We host our blog on an HA Kubernetes cluster with Service Mesh and GitOps. For scalability."

S3 + CF: $0.50/month
This setup: $5,000 + 3 admins
Resume Value: GODLIKE

👉 worstofbreed.net/patterns/k8s...

#WorstOfBreed #Kubernetes #DevOps #programming #TechHumor
January 8, 2026 at 11:11 PM
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​We are currently curating the entries for the 2025 Tech Horror Radar.

​The "Burn with Fire" ring is filling up quickly, but we have some spots left in the "Zombie Technologies" quadrant.

​What legacy tech is currently refusing to die in your organization?

Submissions are open in the replies. 👇
Tech Horror Radar Quadrants: Resume-driven Tooling (RDT), Zombie Technologies, Cargo Cults & Theater, Footguns & Booby Traps. Tech Horror Radar Ring Categories: - Burn with Fire: Active danger to life, health, and sanity. Remove immediately. - Containment Breach: It is too late. It is everywhere in the company. We can only isolate it, but no longer kill it. - Resume Only: Looks great, fun at conferences, but please never use in production if you want to sleep at night. - Despair: We have accepted that we must live with it. Total resignation.
December 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM