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I worked at Unity on Build Automation/Cloud Build for nearly a decade. Let me assure you, that tech debt is NOT being fixed any year soon. It’s due to a fundame

I worked at Unity on Build Automation/Cloud Build for nearly a decade. Let me assure you, that tech debt is NOT being fixed any year soon. It’s due to a fundamental disconnect between executive leadership wanting to run the company like Adobe (explicitly) and every engineer wanting to work like a large scale open source project (Kubernetes, Linux, and Apache are pretty close in style). The only way anything gets built is as a Skunkworks project and you can only do so much without funding and executive support.

LeanderK 3y ago
> run the company like Adobe (explicitly) what does this mean?
robterrell 3y ago
Can you elaborate on this?
johnnyanmac 3y ago
> I worked at Unity on Build Automation/Cloud Build my condolances. the Build iterations and ancient CI workflow was by far the biggest complaint for the teams I was on and talked to. it takes so long getting stuff properly landed into trunk that I can't really blame the teams wanting to break off if possible (it fortunately was for my division). But I'm guessing it was hard to convince product or execs that dev velocity matters, so we were all just wading in muck. I heard things were improving... but I heard that every month I was there. >executive leadership wanting to run the company like Adobe I think I know what you mean by this, but can you clarify?