Don't fork the ecosystem
Software tech stacks today look way more like a rainforest — with animals and plants co-existing, competing, living, dying, growing, interacting in unplanned ways — than like a planned garden.
Jean Yang • The Case for ‘Developer Experience’
Any system, biological, economic, or social, that gets so encrusted that it cannot self-evolve, a system that systematically scorns experimentation and wipes out the raw material of innovation, is doomed over the long term on this highly variable planet.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
Applications no longer need to build an entire stack and compete for the best underlying data. Instead, anyone with an idea for improving the features, services, or interfaces of a use case can plug into the existing ecosystem and its data and start offering their improvement. Builders can build faster, users get more choice, and the Web as a whole... See more
Danny Zuckerman • Data composability: what it is + why it matters
Everything is more or less going to be custom coded, including data structures. Every job is an entity in and of itself that does not have awareness of other things that may be going on.