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Best Practice: Application Frameworks: While powerful, frameworks are not for everyone.

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While frameworks can be a powerful tool, they have some disadvantages and may not make sense for all organizations. Framework maintainers need to provide standardization and well-defined behavior while not being overly prescriptive. When frameworks strike the right balance, however, they can offer large developer productivity gains. The consistency provided by widespread use of frameworks is a boon for other teams such as SRE and security that have a vested interest in the quality of applications. Additionally, the structure of frameworks provides a foundation for building higher-level abstractions such as microservices platforms, which unlock new opportunities for system architecture and automation. At Google, such frameworks and platforms have seen broad organic adoption and have had a significant positive impact.

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Queue  Volume 18, Issue 6
Time-series Databases
November-December 2020
131 pages
ISSN:1542-7730
EISSN:1542-7749
DOI:10.1145/3442632
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Published: 20 January 2021
Published in QUEUE Volume 18, Issue 6

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