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> get things up and running incredibly quickly Optimizing for the wrong metric.
by goodpoint 3y ago
> get things up and running incredibly quickly
Optimizing for the wrong metric.
- geraldhh 3y agousername checks out "move fast and break things" was always a short-sighted fad in the context of infrastructure
- nurple 3y agoUnderrated comment. So many orgs seem to spend a lot of time and effort on DX that makes onboarding, building, and deploying new software packages fast. But in most cases getting these pipelines set up was never a bottleneck, and automating their creation is a nearly NP-complete problem. I think the reasoning behind these efforts is twofold: first, devops empire builders that mistake this for a good metric, and leadership that thinks it might let them get rid of ops ppl.
- code_biologist 3y agoAccessibility is the metric in software adoption. Raspberry Pi and Arduino have made those computing form factors wildly more approachable for a general audience. Are they optimizing for the wrong metric?
- goodpoint 3y agoRaspberry Pi and Arduino are focusing on learning which is the opposite of "getting things up and running incredibly quickly"
- jrm4 3y agofor YOU. I teach IT. I'm trying to get people interested in empowering themselves, not necessarily create more cogs.
- goodpoint 3y agoThen you should optimize for learning, not for "quick deploy and forget" which is precisely the pattern of "cogs".