> I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with a big chunk of this article. Documentation is generally a waste of time unless you have a very static infrastr

> I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with a big chunk of this article. Documentation is generally a waste of time unless you have a very static infrastructure, and run books are the devil. I estimate there's maybe 25% of the industry that's ignorant of "best practices", 70% that follow them dogmatically, and 5% that use them as guidelines, evaluating each situation on its own merits and choosing what makes sense. I feel like it's more frustrating to deal with the 70% than the 25%. For some people documentation can only sound like a virtuous thing. But documentation can do harm as soon as it gets out of sync with reality.