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> Modern devops, with its million tools that break backward compatibility every month sometimes becomes the running joke at lunch. Ironically, modern devops an
by zapita 8y ago
> Modern devops, with its million tools that break backward compatibility every month sometimes becomes the running joke at lunch.
Ironically, modern devops and its million broken tools are a primary source of revenue for cloud providers, helping pay for your lunch in the first place.
- dredmorbius 8y agoRisk arbitrage. Present capability vs. future catastrophic risk. Technology is debt.
- zapita 8y agoI honestly can't tell whether you're making a sincere but unintelligible argument, or just trolling. Do you disagree with what I said?
- dredmorbius 8y agoYes, re: last. Tech-as-debt is a notion I'm playing with. https://mastodon.social/@natecull/99318348047974414 https://mastodon.social/@natecull/99318348047974414 https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/jS1K9MtoKDn https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/jS1K9Mto... Obvious antecedent: technical debt, Ward Cunningham.
- auslander 8y agoYou might be on the point, efficient designs are bad for cloud providers. On the other hand, shitty designs that get hacked are bad PR for them. Thing is, none of it matters. Bottom line matters. They care to attract company decision makers. Decision makers are engineers in small to medium businesses, and managers in big ones. Sadly, its the big ones that matter for bottom line. So target is mid management, flashy power point presentations and 'conferences' that allow for justified travel and stay. Good mid management, with tech background, exists, but is a minority. Not all is lost, truth is out there (c) Mulder :))