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I really don't understand why. There seems to be a bit of a keeping-up-with-the-Jones effect The industry strongly incentivises individual engineers to make de

• crispyambulance 6y ago
  It's true, nobody wants to be left behind with a bunch of skills that aren't attractive to desirable employers. There's also very much a tendency to make things complicated in many workplaces as a form of job security and gatekeeping. But it doesn't last forever. Today's hot-shit is tomorrow's ball-and-chain. 10+ years from now, many k8s monsters will still be running and kept alive by stressed-out teams in India. Much like the "Oracle Enterprise Business Suite" giant-shit-ball from the late 90's is still working in many corporations doing absolute critical stuff with tentacles in every part of the org. Changes in these systems are nearly impossible because of the cost and nightmarish complexity, and _everyone_ is _forced_ to use it.
  • goatinaboat 6y ago
    There's also very much a tendency to make things complicated in many workplaces as a form of job security and gatekeeping It’s not only that it’s also boredom. Cranking out another cookie-cutter app can be much more fun if you do it in a novel way. Basically all the incentives are aligned towards exotic over-engineering rather than boring, safe but actually perfectly good choices. The danger will come if any savvy manager figures out what this costs them. So we’re probably all safe but you never know.