Thank you Abed! About invisible designs, two examples come to my mind in recent times:
1) We had to setup a simple service that turned some HTML emails into PDFs, store them somewhere and link them to customers. We used lambdas, dynamoDB, and S3 for the actual storage of the PDFs. Fast forward several years, the throughput of the service grew ~50x without ever breaking a sweat! Zero maintenance and zero downtime.
2) When I started Refactoring I spent ~3 weeks investigating the various possible tech stacks I could use for the newsletter. I looked into Ghost, custom code + mail services, Substack, and more. I eventually went with Substack, and I have never considered switching ever since. Totally invisible now!
Loving these brain-pickers at the start of the week. Would also love to know examples of the invisible designs.
Thank you Abed! About invisible designs, two examples come to my mind in recent times:
1) We had to setup a simple service that turned some HTML emails into PDFs, store them somewhere and link them to customers. We used lambdas, dynamoDB, and S3 for the actual storage of the PDFs. Fast forward several years, the throughput of the service grew ~50x without ever breaking a sweat! Zero maintenance and zero downtime.
2) When I started Refactoring I spent ~3 weeks investigating the various possible tech stacks I could use for the newsletter. I looked into Ghost, custom code + mail services, Substack, and more. I eventually went with Substack, and I have never considered switching ever since. Totally invisible now!