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The devops answer to complexity is always more complexity.

• BerislavLopac 3y ago
  That's pretty much the fundamental theorem of software engineering. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_software_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_softwar...
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• rewmie 3y ago
  > The devops answer to complexity is always more complexity. I don't think this is a valid take. The main responsibility of DevOps is automation. You cannot automate without writing code, which by definition means introducing complexity. You either introduce complexity by writing low-level scripts, or by adopting a tool/framework which allows you to write high-level code by hiding the low-level code in their entrails. I feel your comment implies that DevOps mindlessly adds complexity, when the truth of the matter is that it greatly simplifies everything at the expense of surfacing all the complexity that forced the world to treat all the cattle as fragile little pets.
  • fhcuvuvuc 3y ago
    I like pets. Not everyone is a rancher.
    • rewmie 3y ago
      I have no idea what point you were trying to make. The "cattle" analogy is about reproducibility. There is absolutely no reason to keep systems in an unmanageable state that you cannot reproduce.
• shantnutiwari 3y ago
  >The devops answer to complexity is always more complexity. Sorry, I thought you were talking about Npm there :) This isnt unique to Devops