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I have fifteen years of professional experience in software development and I didn't have the slightest clue what Veneur did from its description of "A distribu

I have fifteen years of professional experience in software development and I didn't have the slightest clue what Veneur did from its description of "A distributed, fault-tolerant pipeline for observability data." - Distributed - Got this one, but it's an adjective and doesn't mean much on its own. - Fault-tolerant - Same. - Pipeline - OK, great, totally meaningless noun. I guess stuff goes in it? - Observability data - What the heck is observability data? Nginx is a web server, plus a heck of a lot more. Their website does a terrific job of explaining it. https://www.nginx.com/resources/glossary/nginx/ https://www.nginx.com/resources/glossary/nginx/

mrkurt 8y ago
The scope of software development is so broad I think you could spend 100 years doing it and still not understand everything. For example, _I_ know what observability data is, but I'd have a difficult time explaining the problem Redux tackles. If you've spent most of your time building user facing apps + web apps, how would you immediately understand a problem that someone working on large scale payment infrastructure has to solve?
- detaro 8y ago
  > but I'd have a difficult time explaining the problem Redux tackles. Do you think you couldn't understand a short description of the problem it tackles? Because if you could, then a short description in a readme would be valuable to you, and presumably the developers of the thing are able to explain the problem.