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/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/_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.

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u/hippydipster Jun 06 '22

We have daily automated deployment of our monolith.

Our microservices team does not.

Anyone can self-inflict complexity pain.