{"id":2910,"date":"2018-03-26T10:23:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2018-03-26T10:23:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:23:22","slug":"run-less-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2910","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Run less software&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/running-573762_640-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Running\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2912\" srcset=\"http:\/\/edit.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/running-573762_640-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/edit.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/running-573762_640.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This post from the folks at Intercom makes some really good points about the benefits you can get from leveraging other software solutions. It&#8217;s an interesting article, but the source works at a company that offers a SaaS solution to help you help your customers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2872\">I&#8217;m a fan<\/a>). You can read some interesting discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=16675833\">at HN<\/a>. An interesting quote from the post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Choosing standard technologies is very similar to this, only in software. You need to constrain yourself to solving problems mostly, but not exclusively, with a small, specific set of standard tools. By doing this over time we become experts in them. Then, we are able to build better and faster solutions from them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From my experience with small teams, having a standard software stack is a big win. It lets you reuse business logic and skills across your business. (The spread of microservices may mean this matters less in the future, though with a small team and product microservices may be overkill.)<\/p>\n<p>However, I wish Rich had titled it &#8220;write less software&#8221; because that is really what he is advocating for. When I use AWS or Intercom or Gmail, I&#8217;m not really running less software. In fact, I may be running more. Since I don&#8217;t have insight into those applications, I really don&#8217;t know. But I&#8217;m not concerned about writing, reading and maintaining as much software, and that is the true win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post from the folks at Intercom makes some really good points about the benefits you can get from leveraging other software solutions. It&#8217;s an interesting article, but the source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2913,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}