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Why do people look upon the hideous face of complexity and brittleness and configuration hell and decide that the solution is to introduce yet ANOTHER piece of
by d_burfoot 7y ago
Why do people look upon the hideous face of complexity and brittleness and configuration hell and decide that the solution is to introduce yet ANOTHER piece of technology? Don't they understand that this is the exact instinct that led us to hell in the first place?
- space_ghost 7y agoThis [0] is how. * [0] https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- wpietri 7y agoI think it's a combination of two things. One is looking for minimum change, which is honestly a pretty good urge. People like to keep doing mostly what they're doing. Having too much of the opposite instinct leads to eternal thrash. The other, less good piece is people not being up to the task of going down to the fundamentals and building back up from there. And not just the technical fundamentals, but also those of system purpose, user needs, and how value gets delivered. Which honestly, I get as well. Having tried using Kubernetes, I'm unimpressed. But it has such enormous momentum that even if I were sure I had a better solution, I doubt I'd bother going my own way. Instead I'd just try to mitigate the pain. Ideally I'd find a way that might lead people out of the technological cul de sac they ended up in.
- cle 7y agoHow do you propose we deal with the complexity?