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> our predecessors spent so much time in getting everything 100% correct from the ground up What predecessors are you talking about here? The internet is barel
by capableweb 3y ago
> our predecessors spent so much time in getting everything 100% correct from the ground up
What predecessors are you talking about here? The internet is barely held together with duct tape and servers running only because of minute by minute injection of WD50 straight into the fan bearings. There is so much cruft everywhere that is being relied on daily in production systems that most people lost count by now on how much horrible code and setups they've seen in the life.
- jwestbury 3y agoBack in 2014, I left my job as a one-man IT department and started working at AWS. Pretty quickly, I found myself joking that I used to know how the Internet worked, but now I didn't know how it keeps working. I spent over five years at AWS, and have worked at other major tech companies since. I continue to not know how the Internet keeps working -- it's basically always on fire, and held together only because of a lot of people who are actively firefighting.