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You're simply missing the point. > I seriously don’t understand why people in 2024 insist in reproducing these core services but badly and at great expense. B
by eddythompson80 2y ago
You're simply missing the point.
> I seriously don’t understand why people in 2024 insist in reproducing these core services but badly and at great expense.
Because those users have a flow that they like and don't want to change it regardless of all the pitfalls in that flow. "It works, there is just this one problem. Why don't you invent a solution for this one problem for us. I don't want to use S3, or Azure or whatever. Just give me an sftp endpoint I can upload files to". Oh CSV doesn't have a standardized way of parsing escapes? why don't you handle a `# escape=\` or `# doublequote` or `# singlequote` or `# ignore-new-lines-in-the-middle-of-a-string` and we will use that.
Heck, it's 2024, and we have a fully automated, source control (github, gitlab, bitbucket, etc) integrated, S3/Azure Storage/GCP Buckets integrated, Dockerfile and Makefile aware, application deployment service and we still have a non-trivial number of users asking "Why can't I just drag and drop my .php or .py files over fileZilla to deploy my code? I don't want to use git or docker or S3". Oh, you can't version our code updates when we just drag 100 files over sftp? why don't we update a `version.txt` file when we're done updating then you count that as a version?
- jiggawatts 2y ago> Because users have a flow that they like https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx82407j1v3o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx82407j1v3o Some of these solutions were never good, but build a momentum of “we’ve always done it this way”.