Are microservices better than monoliths? Should teams set their own technical direction, or is it better to have that dictated by some external architect? Should you write long-term complex projects in an untyped language? If you’re on the internet for ten seconds, you’ll see many engineers who argue about these topics as if the answer was obvious. The longer I work in tech, the less confident I get about any of these big questions. I’ve seen enough things work that I thought were terrible ideas...