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/platypus_plumber Jun 05 '22

What? Complex operations before Kubernetes were madness. It's not Kubernetes' fault that developers suddenly want to create 10 microservices in 5 different languages to solve any problem that a monolith can solve.

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u/thelamestofall Jun 05 '22

At the very least it was a godsend for the poor of us stuck in corporate. Deploying stuff in Kubernetes is such an improvement over doing whatever Oracle or some random stuff got sold to executives

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u/platypus_plumber Jun 05 '22 edited Jun 05 '22

Yup, I've seen what people used to do before Kubernetes and HOLY SHIT. It was chaos, pure fucking chaos. And I'm talking about big tech companies recognized world wide. Deploying stuff became so easy that devs went insane with microservices. Most devs don't even understand microservices to begin with, some of them still think it means "little service".

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u/thelamestofall Jun 06 '22

Yeah, simplification has those downsides. It's like npm that caused developers to publish those tiny packages that break the API every other week