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For that matter, has OP even met the HN accepted wisdom? "No one knows what they're doing, everyone's faking it, it's fine if you are too" -- so don't take it a
by SilasX 2y ago
For that matter, has OP even met the HN accepted wisdom? "No one knows what they're doing, everyone's faking it, it's fine if you are too" -- so don't take it as a red flag when your fumbling around keeps blowing up, because it surely must work that way everywhere else.
My early rant against this mentality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19214749
- tmpz22 2y agoIts very humbling coming out of startup-land and working with big tech engineers and realizing their tooling runs circles around everybody else and enables them to be much more precise with their work and scale, though it isn't without trade-offs.
- sanderjd 2y agoYeah but a lot of that is just the accrual of improvements that is possible with a lot of resources over a long period of time. People working in "big tech" aren't fundamentally better at building reliable tools and systems; the time and resource constraints are entirely different.
- crabmusket 2y agoAnd the stakes! This outage might have cost the OP $10k. A similar snafu at a larger company might have cost tens of millions or more.
- fragmede 2y agoThe big tech tooling probably cost tens of millions of dollars to create, and probably had a couple $10k mistakes on the way to getting it written and running.
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