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Let’s be real - how many business projects honestly require tens to thousands of “machines”? And what fraction of IT people work on those projects? There is a
by lostapathy 8y ago
Let’s be real - how many business projects honestly require tens to thousands of “machines”? And what fraction of IT people work on those projects?
There is a huge amount of IT work that never gets to that scale, and of the IT projects that get there, lots don’t actually need to be.
- brobdingnagians 8y agoI guess it's all part of the "silver bullet" and "hype" culture. People want something that will automatically scale their new giga-scale web product that is going to be "the new facebook!", and managers want something that will make them rich without too much work, so they sign up for all the latest cool tools instead of thinking deeply about their real requirements and good old fashioned hard work. Some of the latest cool tools really _are_ amazing and worth every penny and more, but I'm sceptical about some of them...