Extremes are Usually Wrong for Software Engineers

Software Engineers often divide into extremes with either/or mindsets.

Here are some examples I’ve seen over the years:

• Microservices vs. Monoliths
• Monorepo vs. Multirepos
• Programming Language X vs. Programming Language Y
• Functional Programming vs. Object-Oriented Programming

We need to get into the habit of taking a step back and being more pragmatic. These don’t have to be binary choices. The best answers to are usually somewhere between the spectrum.

Nothing completely sucks; nothing is perfect. There aren’t silver bullets, just tradeoffs.