Scripting is great, especially for handling one time jobs, for doing PoCs it short-lived projects. You can be really productive and just get the job done. But o

Scripting is great, especially for handling one time jobs, for doing PoCs it short-lived projects. You can be really productive and just get the job done. But operating something on a regular basis is a different thing. Productionize such thing invokes a lot of different aspects to handle and this articles is mainly about it: showing cases where evolving “scripting solutions” simply doesn’t scale. Too much glue and too few control over the main aspects of the problem. I saw solutions that started like this and very quickly became an unmanageable mess. I guess it’s some sort of pattern where it’s hard to see this fine line between “it works so don’t need to reengineer it” and realising a huge technical debt incurred. It requires experienced person to make a decision to drop the former and start with some more sane solution.