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Kubernetes. Docker. AWS and its gazillion impenetrable product names. The days of security updates, pentests, honeypots and captchas you have to go thr
by sai_c 6y ago
Kubernetes. Docker. AWS and its gazillion impenetrable product names. The days of security updates, pentests,
honeypots and captchas you have to go through in order to put up a webapp that won't be commandeered by (insert
bad guy here) within hours. The endless cycle of breakage on your server because LetsEncrypt or whoever have
upgraded their crypto libraries to fight against (insert bad guy here).
The need for a lawyer to write you a privacy policy before you can let people log into your site. The endless
bullshit of dealing with "Log in with Facebook/Google/Apple" because that's what people expect these days. And
even then it's better than dealing with email verification because Gmail/Hotmail will kill your emails anyway.
I've often heard the term "If bridges were built like software..." to show the fragility and ad hoc building of software.
But let's image "If bridges were built like software" to survive pretty much any kind of malicious attack (like in
"WTF? Why did the bridge collapse when those crazy guys bombed it?").
So maybe, just maybe, not everything should be a web app, and be connected to everything.
EDIT: Corrected typo.