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I am pretty sure 99% of the development time is no longer spent on solving problems and implementing features, but on creating unnecessary complex systems, depl
by XCSme 3y ago
I am pretty sure 99% of the development time is no longer spent on solving problems and implementing features, but on creating unnecessary complex systems, deploying and maintaining them in an auto-scalable cloud, when a single $5 VPS would be performant enough, if all that complexity wasn't there. We should spend more time in writing efficient, simple code with fewer dependencies. We get so much natively nowadays that often choosing to add another framework/library adds more limitations than benefits.
- chasd00 3y agoI blame the devops industrial complex. When cloud providers came online and especially when "devops" became a thing then developers became the marketing target. Social media, the whole influencer concept, and all those manipulation tactics were turned loose on software developers. Look at the breadth and depth of services and tools on the market to produce a web application. Another thing, this isn't the first instance of the pendulum swinging back. Providing what would normally be desktop apps through a browser reminds me of dumb terminals attached to an AS400.