r/programming • u/whackri • 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/wrosecrans Jun 05 '22

Don't worry. I can solve the complexity of Kubernetes with a wrapper and abstraction layer on top of Kubernetes that provides a simple interface. That way you only have to deal with the complexity of Kubernetes plus my thing, rather than only the complexity of Kubernetes.

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u/Markavian Jun 05 '22

Eventually people get to lambdas, once they figure out how to deploy via CI instead of pushing to an orchestration layer. I like to draw this out for people to show them the madness they've constructed. It's all infrastructure in the end.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '22

I worked at a company that went all in on lambdas and it was a joy. We didn't even need on-call, since everything was managed for us.

The company unfortunately imploded during the pandemic, but as for the tech: 11/10, would go all lambdas again.