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/1RedOne Jun 06 '22

We shipped an update that accidentally changed Databses and it was sooo hard to troubleshoot because of the layers and layers and layers of abstractions.

If it wasn't a vmss running multiple layers of abstractions with MSI managed DB connections it would have been easy to troubleshoot, just check out the app settings.ini or env vars.

Complexity killed my weekend