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I think it's unfair to only blame developers for this bad culture in our industry. At every layer of the stack the same things happen. At my local government th
by wrnr 6y ago
I think it's unfair to only blame developers for this bad culture in our industry. At every layer of the stack the same things happen. At my local government they reformed child benefits and needed a new IT system to handle it, of-course we ended up with the over-engineered enterprise architecture of micro-services running on kubernetes, communicating over an event bus with CQRS, continuous integration and continuous deployment all day everyday, managed priorities with using agile on a scrum board, for a specification that did not exist because the law hadn't been finalised until half way through the project, all to get people money on their account. But did anybody in charge bother fixing the situation where their are 5 different commercial and not-for-profit institutions handling the money, acting as intermediaries
and thus profiting off the tax benefits for people to help them raise their children, No.
- birdyrooster 6y agomicro services on kubernetes is hardly over engineering things. its lightweight, fast and is easy to implement with.
- colinb 6y agoIs your real name Lillian Hellman? Regrettably, in this instance, I am not Mary McCarthy.
- kbr2000 6y agoYou're right, but that doesn't take away your capability to say "NO" and go against that stream of bullshit. Caveat: you'll probably lose everything except your morality at that point. That's how it's all set up after all...