RIG is a scalable, open source gateway to your microservices. It solves the problem of connection state (which users are online currently, with which devices), which allows your microservices to be stateless. Pushing arbitrary messages to all connected front-ends of a specific user becomes as easy as publishing a message to a Kafka topic.

The key takeaway, for both physical and digital spaces is that we need to be disciplined and make deleting and organizing code a regular priority. Ignoring clutter only compounds it and makes a seemingly intractable problem even worse. Armed with a simple set of rules and making an effort is worth it. When you KonMari your code, you can transform frustration into joy.