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We need an update of Parkinson's law: Software expands to occupy all hardware available. If you throw more hardware at the problem, you get bloated software.
by namaria 4y ago
We need an update of Parkinson's law:
Software expands to occupy all hardware available. If you throw more hardware at the problem, you get bloated software.
It happens everywhere. Powerful clients led to bloated web apps. Huge data centers led to "micro service and devops" bloat. How many layers of software do I need to run code that actually handles business logic? 'Everything-as-code' sounds great when your tool box is knowing how to write code.
95% of the actual, real world problems could be solved by spreadsheets and email. But when you pump productivity gains into capital returns and keep people working the same hours as a century before, busywork goes through the roof.
Bloat everywhere.
- vector_rotcev 4y agoNamaria's Law: "Software expands to occupy all hardware available. If you throw more hardware at the problem, you get bloated software."
- chaxor 4y agoActually, I think this problem is going to be solved easily with GPT, since it writes really concise and performant code. Using LLMs to generate scripts is so much more efficient and will make this bloat problem fade away. \/s