clouded

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by clouded 4y ago
I get paid pretty well fixing bugs and writing code, that stuff you call "just closing Jira tickets" and "throwing code over the wall". It's also enough to fry my brain and leave me exhausted. But it's obviousl
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by clouded 4y ago
I happily also work on bugs, not just new features. The thing is, bugs and features completely fries my brain. Especially if you want it done right and not introduce bugs somewhere else. Forget devops for a second, what I'm saying is t
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by clouded 4y ago
The point is obviously to pay less people to do more work. What I don't get is when developers themselves are in favor of it like I constantly see with this devops stuff. There's no way they have any kind of life outside of their
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by clouded 4y ago
That sounds really fun, because it's not enough to absolutely fry my brain every day fixing obscure bugs or developing new features. I'd like to also fix the infrastructure. I might also be able to handle the responsibilities of a
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by clouded 4y ago
That was wizards and druids. Wizard spires and druid rings. Enchanters made money casting a spell to cause faster mana regen.
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by clouded 4y ago
I don't know, I work for the kind of companies that have 20 year old Java codebases. In these companies, they are only relatively recently migrating to AWS. They're at different points along this path, but they seem to converge on
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by clouded 4y ago
I thought about how to reply to this, but database roles vary so differently from company to company, it's a bit of a rabbit hole to go down. Whether you call what I described being a DBA or not, I don't think it's reasonable
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by clouded 4y ago
I can write a Spring Boot app from zero to a fully functional API interface to the database in one day. Really less time, but that includes unit and integration testing. The front end that will consume that API is another matter so I won&#x
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by clouded 4y ago
Are you saying I can actually get paid for that? Wait, I really am in the wrong field.
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by clouded 4y ago
This is how I'd like to be, but my personality or my nature constantly fights it. It doesn't want to go with the flow, it wants to push back.
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by clouded 4y ago
Yes, I thought the NoSQL hype in general peaked around 2015. God no, MongoDB is out there. And they've realized that in fact data does need a schema. And transactions. So they did that. They'll probably just tack on SQL query abil
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by clouded 4y ago
That sounds good, though. Do companies exist that will actually let me master my craft in exchange for maintaining their old code bases and not pull the rug out from under me every few years? Those are the companies I thought I worked at, b
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by clouded 4y ago
I kind of accepted and came to terms early on that what we do (most of us?) is basically boring CRUD type stuff. Somehow, I've come to like being able to go into a big, old code base that no one wants to work on and actually learn it a
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by clouded 4y ago
I appreciate the comment. I believe it is mostly a "me" problem as well. I don't think everyone is an idiot. I do think we have a bad tendency to get bored and want to chase new exciting technologies. Sooner or later anyone w
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by clouded 4y ago
It helps to know you feel similarly even while you're on that same tech that I fear. Thank you!
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by clouded 4y ago
I love relational databases. I think they are among the greatest products to come out of the entierty of computer science, ever. You're right, I do care about application performance and index tuning and query optimization. But it woul
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by clouded 4y ago
Hey can we at least say construction workers are still using hammers and they don't jump on the noHammer fad or other nonsense :)
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by clouded 4y ago
Good point. It's maybe hard to see when you yourself aren't very good at something. Even harder when you really like doing it.
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by clouded 4y ago
Yes, I'm afraid of that. But the tech is changing into something I don't recognize and that I don't like. It's not a change of syntax or type system. If I'm right AWS will replace Java as the enterprise standard. I
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by clouded 4y ago
Thanks for this post, I'll be rereading it, may even point this to some guys I work with. I appreciate it.
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by clouded 4y ago
I think this is basically right. I'm not a FAANG level developer. I'd like to at least say I'm average and sometimes good. Mostly because I like programming and tend to care about doing a good job. But I got lucky to come alo
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by clouded 4y ago
I'm sorry to be negative but people who think like you is what I was referring to. I can't relate to your embracing of us being asked suddenly to do a second job that isn't software development. I don't care about the in
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by clouded 4y ago
Of course, but that's not how I've seen it play out now, twice. They're eerily similar in going all in, full cloud mode kubernetes docker yaml hashicorp trendy product soup. Complete with architecture teams who try to wrangle
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Need some advice, feeling depressed about the direction of our industry
61 points by clouded 4y ago|131 comments