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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Understand And Stay Away From Cargo Cult</h1>
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2019-06-25
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/things-i-learnt/">#things i learnt</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/cargo-cult/">#cargo cult</a>
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<p>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult">Cargo cult</a>" is a type of cult
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which appeared in the Melanesia, in which the natives would build their copy
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of an airplane (no motor, 'cause they didn't have the knowledge to build one
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-- or even knew what went inside the airplane) in the hopes they would get the
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same results as a real airplane.</p>
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<span id="continue-reading"></span>
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<p>In IT, a "cargo cult" is the expectation that if you use the same tools as
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some big players, you'd end up getting the same results.</p>
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<p>One example: Netflix runs a large fleet of microservices daily; they use
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Spring Cloud; if we use Spring Cloud, we can also run a large fleet of
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microservices.</p>
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<p>Although it may sound correct in a first glance, things are not like that.
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There is much more to the Netflix fleet than just Spring Cloud.</p>
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<p>Sometimes, cargo cult can appear in a form of "fanaticism" about celebrities:
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Fowler_(software_engineer)">Fowler</a> said
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such and such pattern works this way and that's exactly what we should do.
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Just because Fowler is well know software engineer and architect and do have
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some very clever ideas, picking them and running exactly the way he described
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may do more harm than good -- basically, 'cause you'd end up applying a
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design pattern without worrying about solving your problem in the first place.</p>
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<p>Another example: "ProductX is sponsored by BigCompany, so it's good". It may
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be, but the fact that BigCompany is being ProductX doesn't immediately makes
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ProductX good, or even if it fits your solution. And there is much more
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<a href="/books/things-i-learnt/languages-are-more">behind a product</a> than just its
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development.</p>
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<< <a href="/books/things-i-learnt/languages-are-more">A Language Is Much More Than A Language</a>
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