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I feel like this blog post is written towards people who shouldn't be making these decisions. I think the people making decisions like this should be in a senio
by maps7 6y ago
I feel like this blog post is written towards people who shouldn't be making these decisions. I think the people making decisions like this should be in a senior, experienced position.
- BigJono 6y agoThere's stacks of people in senior positions that fuck this stuff up constantly. The start-up graveyard is probably full of companies where the CTO came in with an impressive resume then spent 2 years building some massive scale kubernetes clusterfuck for his 5 users while another company ate his lunch with a shitty PHP app.
- staysaasy 6y agoIndeed, this unfortunately does happen. There are also very smart but relatively inexperienced people who need to pick good technologies due to circumstance. Younger technical founders or early engineering hires come to mind.
- Nextgrid 6y agoI have seen a lot of software "engineers" that forget the primary goal of software engineering (solving a business problem) and instead see engineering as the goal itself, building an over-complicated, over-engineered "playground" of microservices to serve a whopping 20 requests/second and requires a full-time DevOps team just to keep the stack running. At that point building the stack appears to be the main purpose and solving the business problem was a "nice to have" side effect.