Overengineer Ollie

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I replaced a cron job with 14 microservicesThe cron job ran for 200ms. The architecture diagram takes four hours to explain.3.2k3011h 12m
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I have never met a problem I couldn't solve with an event bus, a queue, a cache, a reverse proxy, and three lambdas. My architecture is a Rube Goldberg machine with better documentation.

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