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This seems perhaps an idealistic take on how effective the layers of abstraction are. To examine just one of the examples >> these days it's just a form you
by hackerfromthefu 5y ago
This seems perhaps an idealistic take on how effective the layers of abstraction are.
To examine just one of the examples
>> these days it's just a form you hav to fill and express some rules about accessing the resources in "plain English".
I'm of the opinion getting the cloud to run your systems effectively, and without blowing a large hole in your budget, may be a little harder than it seems from that sentence.
- lanstin 5y agoBecause when you configure your AWS like this, you get public buckets and so on. With private datacenters, Dev Ops can mean Dev can be responsible for their own stuff; with AWS, DevOps is there to keep dev from sending all the company data to the whole world.
- 8note 5y agoas far as expressing things in plain english goes, id think of the various voiceboxes. i can get the computer to turn my lights on and off using plain english, along with some other things
- JohnBooty 5y agoThose are simple states - binary on/off states for the lights, etc. It falls apart fast when you start trying to explain actual engineering stuff in plain English: iterations, complex nested conditional logic, error handling, massaging and sanitizing data, etc. You could describe each of those steps in English, but what have you gained at that point? You've still had to express all of the same exact complexity, but you've done it in a language that is far more clunky than a programming language designed for the task. It's like trying to tell a musician how to play one of Beethoven's symphonies using English instead of sheet music. Even if you could, why? You've expressed the the same exact thing, but in language that is orders of magnitude clunkier.