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		treis on July 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta’s Microservice Architecture [pdf] You don't have to write an API layer and get type checking among some other benefits. Is it a ton of savings? No, but I'd describe it as a significant amount of effort and lower complexity.

philjohn on July 19, 2023 [–]

To be fair, with libraries the API layer can be essentially zero code, and with type checking. That's how it worked when I was at my previous gig.

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