每日阅读——《微服务设计》

一、原文：

Some people try to gain recognition in society by borrowing widely accepted industry terms, but this can lead to two problems. First, this approach assumes that we are clear about what work we should be doing, but this is often not the case. It's not that buildings and bridges won't collapse, but they do so much less frequently than our programs crash, so it's unfair to compare them to engineers. Second, a cursory observation reveals that this analogy is not valid. If we were to compare bridge construction to programming, we might find that the far bank is 50 meters further away than expected, the materials are granite instead of soil, and worst of all, we really wanted a highway bridge instead of a pedestrian one. Software development is not subject to the physical rules that constrain physical engineers and architects. In fact, what we strive to create must be flexible enough to adapt well and evolve according to user needs.

二、翻译：

有些人试图在社会中获得认可，因此借用了已被广泛接受的行业术语，但这可能引发两个问题。首先，这种做法前提是我们清楚自己应该从事什么工作，但事实往往并非如此。并不是说建筑和桥梁绝对不会倒塌，只是它们相比我们的程序崩溃次数要少得多，因此将其与工程师进行类比是不公平的。其次，经过初步观察就会发现，这种类比并不合理。如果将桥梁建设与编程相类比，那么在建造过程中，你可能会发现对岸的距离比预期要远50米，而且材料是花岗岩而不是泥土，更糟糕的是，我们真正想要的是一座公路桥而不是人行桥。软件开发没有像物理工程师和建筑师那样受到物理规则的限制，事实上，我们致力于创造的东西在设计上要足够灵活，具有良好的适应性，并能根据用户需求不断演化。