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> It's entirely possible to have a 100k LOC system be made up of effective a couple hundred 500 line programs that are composed together to great effect.

To me, this sounds like an nightmare—I'm sure anyone who's worked at a shop with way too many microservices would agree. It's trivial to right-click a function call and jump to its definition; much harder to trace through your service mesh and find out what, exactly, is running at `load-balancer.kube.internal:8080/api`.



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