Anti-pattern Ryan admits to having participated in during the 2010s 'dark years'. Teams adopted microservices, NoSQL, GraphQL and single-page apps because Netflix/Amazon/Google/Facebook used them, not because their workload required it. Partly a response to frontend work being dismissed as 'not real programming' — making work look visibly complex so it would be valued. Drove Rails to introduce Webpacker to accommodate React, Vue, Angular, etc.