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I think when you see products that hide complexity and you're forced to "learn" them and this frustrates you, there are three responses - Accept this is how we
by duped 3y ago
I think when you see products that hide complexity and you're forced to "learn" them and this frustrates you, there are three responses
- Accept this is how we make our money and that being paid to be the $INFRA person (replace with your infra tool or cloud provider of choice) is not necessarily a bad thing unless you can't translate that into whatever the next $INFRA is
- Go build the next $INFRA and sell it to all the people like you that didn't like the old $INFRA (or lose everything, obviously this is risky)
- Complain
I don't think the third option is really a good strategy in life. A lot of the frustrating things in industry exist for good reasons (that more often than not, turned out to be bad/inconvenient a lot later) and life is too short to get upset at things when you're being paid to understand them.
But obviously a config file is just a program and you need to know how to debug it when something goes wrong, and it's not helpful when "what does this config do" is hard to see because the thing it configures is intentionally obfuscated.
- 0xcde4c3db 3y ago> I don't think the third option is really a good strategy in life. A lot of the frustrating things in industry exist for good reasons (that more often than not, turned out to be bad/inconvenient a lot later) and life is too short to get upset at things when you're being paid to understand them. On the other hand, a lot of frustrating things that could be fixed with a modicum of effort are neglected on the basis that "nobody's complained". Sure, pick your battles, but don't be so compliant that you leave easy wins on the table.
- drewcoo 3y agoLet's rephrase the options from the author's point of view: 1. accept the problem 2. become part of the problem 3. complain - but please don't I can't help thinking there must at least be some fourth way . . .
- indigodaddy 3y agoHoping that fundamental skills aren’t lost in the wayside eg 10 years from now… although I guess it will just be a somewhat smaller subset of peeps that have them, as someone still has to manage the infra all the way down to bare metal I’d think..
- QuadmasterXLII 3y agoThe option you are missing is to ignore the last guy who gambled on option 2 and won, and just keep using the previous $INFRA .