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I once worked a job where I easily spent 4 times as much time fighting with Terraform files than actually writing features. This company got less than 1,000 hit
by mcluck 2y ago
I once worked a job where I easily spent 4 times as much time fighting with Terraform files than actually writing features. This company got less than 1,000 hits per day. I think about this a lot
- Nextgrid 2y agoI've had gigs where it felt like the company was spending more time fighting self-inflicted consequences of their "best practice" "cloud-native" architecture than developing actual revenue-generating features. So many problems they were dealing with would magically disappear if all the services were running on a single high-end physical machine (the scale didn't mandate anything bigger than that) with a standby one sitting in a different DC for redundancy purposes with incremental DB snapshots shipped to it every 15 mins. The cloud-native, "modern" infra became a liability and impediment to business but too many people would lose face to admit it.