1. Ugh this thing is too integrated, we should break it up into modular parts so we can re-assemble them using only the parts we need. (Examples: most OS kernels, sqlite apparently, big excel spreadsheets, web frameworks like Rails)
2. Ugh this thing is too modular, you need a bazillion parts just to get a useful system. (Examples: analytics platforms consisting of 20+ unix tools strapped together in a pipeline, most microservices architectures, everything in the node ecosystem)
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That's the eternal pendulum of programming:
1. Ugh this thing is too integrated, we should break it up into modular parts so we can re-assemble them using only the parts we need. (Examples: most OS kernels, sqlite apparently, big excel spreadsheets, web frameworks like Rails)
2. Ugh this thing is too modular, you need a bazillion parts just to get a useful system. (Examples: analytics platforms consisting of 20+ unix tools strapped together in a pipeline, most microservices architectures, everything in the node ecosystem)
Spot on.