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I would actually love to work at a company like that. I've been a professional developer for over 20 years now and at least in my experience, too much unneeded

by dave78 5y ago

I would actually love to work at a company like that. I've been a professional developer for over 20 years now and at least in my experience, too much unneeded complexity has been the root cause of so many defects and product failures. I'm constantly fighting battles to keep things simple. All the young devs on my team want to use every fancy new technology that passes by, but I just want things to work for my customers with the smallest amount of downtime and late night pages. If a single JSON file worked at the time, then that's clearly all they needed. It certainly hasn't seemed to limit their success.

billywhizz 5y ago
> All the young devs on my team want to use every fancy new technology that passes by, but I just want things to work for my customers with the smallest amount of downtime and late night pages. i feel your pain dave. resume driven development and FAANG envy seem to be the dominant characteristics of far too many folks in the industry these days.
CRConrad 5y ago
> I'm constantly fighting battles to keep things simple. All the young devs on my team want to use every fancy new technology that passes by... For me, it's not so much my fellow developers -- half my age, but quite bright enough to realise the benefits of simplicity -- but that the vendors of the tools our corporation has decided to use have in turn decided to implement them not just as a spaghetti-reinforced mudball, but as a spaghetti-reinforced mudball of spaghetti-reinforced mudballs. (That these SRMB^2s are then just part of a larger spaghetti-reinforced mudball of SRMB^2s, i.e a spaghetti-reinforced mudball cubed, is of course not the vendors' fault but corporate. But then, aren't corporate systems always SRMBs? So if at least the components were simple, the end result would be only an SRM to the power of one, not three... Sigh.)

by dave78 5y ago

billywhizz 5y ago

> All the young devs on my team want to use every fancy new technology that passes by, but I just want things to work for my customers with the smallest amount of downtime and late night pages. i feel your pain dave. resume driven development and FAANG envy seem to be the dominant characteristics of far too many folks in the industry these days.

CRConrad 5y ago

> I'm constantly fighting battles to keep things simple. All the young devs on my team want to use every fancy new technology that passes by... For me, it's not so much my fellow developers -- half my age, but quite bright enough to realise the benefits of simplicity -- but that the vendors of the tools our corporation has decided to use have in turn decided to implement them not just as a spaghetti-reinforced mudball, but as a spaghetti-reinforced mudball of spaghetti-reinforced mudballs. (That these SRMB^2s are then just part of a larger spaghetti-reinforced mudball of SRMB^2s, i.e a spaghetti-reinforced mudball cubed, is of course not the vendors' fault but corporate. But then, aren't corporate systems always SRMBs? So if at least the components were simple, the end result would be only an SRM to the power of one, not three... Sigh.)