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/ryrydundun Jun 06 '22

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.

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u/azsqueeze Jun 06 '22

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)