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The industry really has become bloated. Now we have DevOps and Agile Coaches and Cloud Engineers and microservices and JavaScript Everywhere(TM). It’s all bull
by gymbeaux 2y ago
The industry really has become bloated. Now we have DevOps and Agile Coaches and Cloud Engineers and microservices and JavaScript Everywhere(TM).
It’s all bullshit. DevOps is really so complex that a medium-sized company needs an entire team?
Earlier today I was trying to set up some elaborate Postgres database backup and couldn’t get it to work so I just put the command in the cron tab and called it a day. Took 1 minute.
- vineyardmike 2y ago> DevOps is really so complex that a medium-sized company needs an entire team? Depends on your goals, but most people probably don't need it. > I just put the command in the cron tab and called it a day Obviously this will lead to data loss if any data is written and then a corruption event or issue occurs in-between cron events. The road to over-complicated infrastructure is paved with mistakes and outages. The home-lab server running on a pi in my closet can use cron jobs and scripts, but at work we maintain higher standards because our data loss would cost more than a few extra days of engineer time. Everything should be as simple as possible, but let's not pretend everyone is a chump because their engineering tolerances don't allow for data loss.
- gymbeaux 2y agoI can have a second DB server with replication and still forego the DevOps team.