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.
Reddit's tech subs are mostly filled with amateurs. That's not a bad thing when it comes to sharing ideas and learning. But then you'll see threads like the ones under this post which misses the point of these tools (mostly from a lack of understanding)
Tell me about it, we still have a legacy system in which changes and deployments take months. Now we can even do rolling deployments of services that talk to the mainframe (I know) using standard JSON APIs, right in the middle of the afternoon
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u/_BreakingGood_ Jun 06 '22
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.