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The number of moving parts & the number of technologies is clearly only one aspect of complexity. The actual complexity and dependencies of each particular tech
by bigDinosaur 5y ago
The number of moving parts & the number of technologies is clearly only one aspect of complexity. The actual complexity and dependencies of each particular technology also differs. My point still stands, I've seen far too much resume building to have any other perspective. Obviously sometimes a company does require complex tools to deliver a product. That's fine. Often they don't, but they still end up with complex tools. That's not so fine.
- jameshart 4y agoI just don't see github actions, say, as an inherently more complex tool than cron. Or vice versa. Both have a certain essential complexity to getting a scheduled task to run, once you've overcome the initial hurdle of getting to a point where you can use them. Depending on where you're starting from, what tools you're already using, and what ecosystem you're already part of, that initial hurdle is going to be of a different size, but once you're over it, for either case, you're just configuring a job with a schedule, and then hopefully getting to forget about it.