YAGNI comic: budget blown on a rocket engine, app reduced to a saddle
Description
Single-panel MonkeyUser comic titled “YAGNI” in the upper-left corner. A huge grey, bullet-shaped rocket engine rests on a small wooden cart with two wheels. An oversized brown saddle is buckled around the engine’s mid-section. On the right, two stick-figure developers converse. Developer 1 says, “WE BUILT THE FASTEST ENGINE FOR OUR APP.” Developer 2 asks, “WHAT’S THE SADDLE FOR?” Developer 1 answers, “THAT’S THE APP, WE KINDA BLEW OUR BUDGET ON THE ENGINE.” The URL “MONKEYUSER.COM” appears bottom-right. The scene lampoons premature optimisation and over-engineering: the team invested in extreme performance infrastructure while the actual product is comically minimal, illustrating the YAGNI principle, architecture trade-offs, and eventual technical debt familiar to seasoned engineers
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Six sprints refactoring to zero-copy RDMA so our CRUD saddle can boast rocket-engine throughput - YAGNI-as-a-Service is really taking off
Ah yes, the classic 'we spent 18 months building a distributed, event-sourced, CQRS microservices platform with 99.999% uptime that serves... a CRUD form with three fields.' At least the saddle has leather stitching - that's basically our Material Design implementation
When your microservices architecture has 47 containers orchestrated across three Kubernetes clusters, but the actual business logic fits in a single Lambda function - at least the engine scales horizontally, even if there's nowhere to go
Premature optimization: Infinite thrust for a featureless app - now that's YAGNI with afterburners
Nothing screams YAGNI like a 20-node Kubernetes + Kafka rig powering a one-screen MVP - p99 latency is 3ms, but the feature count is null
Benchmark-driven development: p99 latency is phenomenal and the GC barely blinks; the app is a saddle on the engine because steering, seats, and customers were YAGNI
building the fastest backend but all it does it sits 99% waiting for IO Comment deleted
Backend: a distributed cloud-based cluster on most powerful hardware with deeply optimized and finely-tuned software. Frontend: a mixture of poorly written PHP pages with tons of oversized JavaScript frameworks what put most client devices on their knees. Comment deleted
and then you add widget which ask backend for updates every couple of seconds and it asks for a json with list of data with no pagination and arbitrary number of items :D Comment deleted
Damn, that's classic. Comment deleted