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Seeing all those services hooked together gives me the willies. It sounds like a right PITA to debug, and chaining them together in serial for a single request multiplies the chance of an error even if each individual node is pretty stable.

I guess it's okay for a demo though. They're probably not setting an example so much as trying to throw as many services together to show off the technique.

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Ya the only way I could ever see this being maintainable is if it's declarative. It takes a tremendous amount of boilerplate and configuration to perform what comes down to a one liner in any functional language or a formula in any spreadsheet. I think I would be more interested in a transform that converts a series of goroutines to lambda functions or something.

You know, architecturally, at application level no one wants to deal with this but devs orchestrate nightmarish dependencies for deploys and hit 'endpoints' with aplomb in service architectures with only a playbook or data blueprint to follow. What's the point of fighting this?

Let the kids play.

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