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You see this constantly in information technology contexts as well. People who at work, when required to work with many other people on the same project which i

You see this constantly in information technology contexts as well. People who at work, when required to work with many other people on the same project which itself is of a larger scale, then bring kubernetes style containers and ideas about "deployment" home to their personal webserver. And this would be fine, silly, recreation if only they didn't write up articles on "How to host from home" that described their k8/etc/etc setup like it was required in this new context. Basically any time you see the word "deployal" outside of a business or institutional IT context you're looking at cargo cult behavior.

zelphirkalt 4y ago
But it is not only people cargo culting at home. It is also people doing that on the job. Instead of looking at various alternatives and truly evaluating them, looking at benefit and downsides each brings, people jump to whatever is the current hype or what is fashionable and then justify it with a circular argument of popularity. Instead of immediately when the talk is about clusters jumping to kubernetes, people should think about whether the conceptual overhead is actually worth it. They should think about, whether the Google scale tool is truly appropriate for what they want to do. Similar situation of course with all the hyped JS frameworks, when a simple statically rendered website/page would do. Basically it is not engineering any longer, but cargo cult and hype. And that is how shitty products are made.