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> From a system architecture perspective, kubernetes is very complex since it handles a multitude of complexities, but that's why it _can_ be very simple from a
by spookthesunset 5y ago
> From a system architecture perspective, kubernetes is very complex since it handles a multitude of complexities, but that's why it _can_ be very simple from a user's perspective.
I’ve been doing software for 20 years in one form or another. One of the things I’ve learned is the simpler and more polished something seems to the user, it is almost always because there is a hell of a lot of complexity under the covers to make it that way.
Making something that handles the 80% is easy. Every step closer to 100% becomes non-linear in a hurry. All that polish and ease of use took months of “fit & finish” timeboxes. It took tons of input from UX and product. It involved making very hard decisions so you, the user, don’t have to.
A good example is TurboTax online. People love to hate on their business practices (for good cause) but their UX handles like 98% of your common tax scenarios in an incredibly easy to use, highly polished way. Robinhood does a pretty good job too, in my opinion—there is a lot of polish in that app that abstracts away some pretty complex stuff.