> At some point, you will have many teams. And one of them _will not_ be able to validate and accept some upgrade. Maybe a regression causes something only they use to break. Now the entire org is held hostage by the version needs of one team. Yes, this happens at slightly larger orgs. I've seen it many times.

The alternative of every service being on their own version of libraries and never updating is worse.

Big shoutout to Amin and Sacha for keeping this going!

Front Door is not good.

What's the most difficult part of distributed stream processing?

It was low. I got a bump to 90k that year, then 130k when I jumped companies, which I thought was a mind boggling amount. Do entry level devs even get out of bed for $130k these days?