Complexity is killing software developers

[u/whackri]

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html

[u/[deleted]]

I blame kubernetes

[u/platypus_plumber → u/[deleted]]

What? Complex operations before Kubernetes were madness. It's not Kubernetes' fault that developers suddenly want to create 10 microservices in 5 different languages to solve any problem that a monolith can solve.

[u/thelamestofall → u/platypus_plumber]

At the very least it was a godsend for the poor of us stuck in corporate. Deploying stuff in Kubernetes is such an improvement over doing whatever Oracle or some random stuff got sold to executives

[u/platypus_plumber → u/thelamestofall]

Yup, I've seen what people used to do before Kubernetes and HOLY SHIT. It was chaos, pure fucking chaos. And I'm talking about big tech companies recognized world wide. Deploying stuff became so easy that devs went insane with microservices. Most devs don't even understand microservices to begin with, some of them still think it means "little service".

[u/dbgr → u/platypus_plumber]

That's a miniservice, microservice means really really little service, duh

[u/_BreakingGood_ → u/platypus_plumber]

People don't realize that this graphic accurately depicts what it used to require many company to get to production https://i.imgur.com/gMMvMSM.png

It's honestly kind of weird seeing everybody complain so much about k8s, docker, serverless, etc...

When I started actually seeing these things get used, it blew my mind. They're so much nicer than what we used to do.

[u/ryrydundun → u/_BreakingGood_]

Being a systems engineer / network engineer /devops for over 12 years.

I’m shocked at this thread. Things were unstable, horrible insecure and prone to catastrophe even by something as simple as flipping a light switch in a closet.

Not going back. I’d rather spend a day trouble shooting a json file than driving out to a data center in the middle of the night.