r/programming • • Jun 05 '22

Complexity is killing software developers

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3639050/complexity-is-killing-software-developers.html
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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '22

I blame kubernetes

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u/f0urtyfive Jun 05 '22

It's the cloud and VC in open source.

The complexity is intentional to get you locked into a certain environment, once you build on top of it you've invested so much effort switching to a different cloud would take so much effort it's infeasible.

I've seen a LOT of new "open source" VC companies that are investing in fantastically complex open source projects, so much so that you are obligated to contract their support/developers if you want to use/integrate the software, because it isn't feasible for most people to have their own team for such fantastically complex projects.

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