--- title: Best David Heinemeier Hansson posts — May 2023 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted David Heinemeier Hansson posts from May 2023, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/dhh/best-of/2023/05 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/dhh/best-of/2023/05 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best David Heinemeier Hansson posts — May 2023 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted David Heinemeier Hansson posts from May 2023, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of David Heinemeier Hansson — May 2023 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/even-amazon-can-t-make-sense-of-serverless-or-microservices-fei479u6w "Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices") Article David Heinemeier Hansson · 3y Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices The Prime Video team at Amazon has published a rather remarkable case study on their decision to dump their serverless, microservices architecture and replace it with a monolith instead. This move saved them a staggering 90% on operating costs, and simplified the system too. But beyond celebrating their good sense, I think there's a bigger point here. 106 13 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-recover-from-microservices-5nivffhp4 "How to recover from microservices") Article David Heinemeier Hansson · 3y How to recover from microservices The worst form of microservices madness is when you splinter a single, coherent flow across multiple systems. When microservices are done right, they often target a narrow, isolated, and usually performance-critical segment of the system. The vast majority of systems should have no more than two backend languages in play at any one time. 42 10 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/programming-types-and-mindsets-n37wnxl6j "Programming types and mindsets") Article David Heinemeier Hansson · 3y Programming types and mindsets The shorter the faith, the brighter the flame. I'm unashamedly a dynamic typing kind of guy. To me, Ruby with explicit, static typing would be like a salad with a scoop of ice cream. It takes full advantage of dynamic typing to allow the poetic syntax that results in such beautiful code. 29 6 [See all David Heinemeier Hansson archives](/sources/dhh/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/dhh/best-of/2023/05#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/dhh/best-of/2023/05","name":"Best David Heinemeier Hansson Posts — May 2023","description":"The most upvoted David Heinemeier Hansson posts from May 2023, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/dhh/best-of/2023/05#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/even-amazon-can-t-make-sense-of-serverless-or-microservices-fei479u6w","name":"Even Amazon can't make sense of serverless or microservices"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-recover-from-microservices-5nivffhp4","name":"How to recover from microservices"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/programming-types-and-mindsets-n37wnxl6j","name":"Programming types and mindsets"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"David Heinemeier Hansson","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/dhh"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/dhh/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"May 2023"}]}]} ```