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Not OP, but I have a similar amount of experience and kind of feel the same way. You used to provision machines, setup the OS, think about networking, disk spa
by ryandvm 2y ago
Not OP, but I have a similar amount of experience and kind of feel the same way.
You used to provision machines, setup the OS, think about networking, disk space, CPUs,
RAM, etc. That stuff was kind of fun.
Then you'd write code to build your service. Actual code where you had to think about the local environment and servers and how they interact.
A lot of software development these days feels more like configuration than anything. Nobody wants to actually develop software or run their own ecosystem. Instead it's just gluing shit together with Auth0, Vercel, DataDog, Atlas, SendGrid, AWS/GCP/Azure, etc.
I get that this theoretically allows you to focus on the code, but the reality is that you spend half your time managing dependencies and glue, dealing with forced upgrades, etc.
It's just not fun anymore.