Visual Programming Is Unbelievable…
outsystems.com4 pointsby pdhborges0 comments
- Django apps are an anitipattern for large internal / single purpose products due to migration overhead as FKs cross application boundaries
What I'm facing right now is a 10 year monolith modularized with applications. Like a sibling comment already discussed these applications are not reusable application so almost all advantages of having that are moot.
Now, the consequence of having this structure is that we now have complex dependencies between the migrations of these apps i.e. cyclic dependencies, dependecy constrains that are underspecified. Thousands of migrations that now take a significant amount of CI time. We would like to squash them but it requires a lot of review and manual work and if we keep using multiple apps we are going to ave the same problem in the future.
The only meaningfull gain we had with multiple apps is that we have less migration conflicts when people create migrations concurrently.
Is that advantage worth the pain? I don't think so.