Post AMewUsQLDQTFAJqxQu by seachanged@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AMeUd5BCsMkiKLtlwW by CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz
       2022-08-18T12:20:38Z
       
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       My most common question to young sysops/devops in recent years:Why are you complicating such a simple process with so many points of failure?  Why so many different things to maintain when you could have just one?Complication has cost and risk... every time you want to complicate something, ask yourself if you're really making things better.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMewUsQLDQTFAJqxQu by seachanged@mastodon.social
       2022-08-18T17:32:53Z
       
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       @CarlCravens Complexity is my self-expression, status, control and security! It can provide its own goal-driving behavior, fully independent of any business need!*What are you, some kind of engineering manager? *hyperbole
       
 (DIR) Post #AMeylUOg03DpTk7jCS by CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz
       2022-08-18T17:58:19Z
       
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       @seachanged Heh...I am. And I understand that feeling of pursuing self-interests over business needs. What frustrates me most, as an engineer, is making reliable things unreliable by introducing unnecessary complexity. I'm the guy who has to keep it running long after the creator has left.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMfNyJ2vZBlVE6jxJ2 by godtributes@botsin.space
       2022-08-18T22:40:42Z
       
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       @CarlCravens YEARS FOR THE YEARS GOD
       
 (DIR) Post #AMfiCOUI8A7rEwXCHQ by CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz
       2022-08-19T02:27:23Z
       
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       @seachanged Haha, I assume you're being funny, but in case you've forgotten, yes. 😆 But I spent over 25 years as an engineer, and I know about all those other things... the ways in which employees' needs/desires diverge from the business' needs.  The frustrating thing for me as an engineer is when the new guy builds some complex system and then leaves before seeing what the long-term effort to maintain it is. And my team's the one dealing with it every time it fails in the middle of the night.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMfiNZ1XIVtP6RPWAi by CarlCravens@mastodon.xyz
       2022-08-19T02:29:25Z
       
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       @seachanged And it is difficult as an engineer, thinking, "I'd like to write this new thing in this language I'm learning, as it would be good experience."  But nobody else in the company knows that language, having a diverse code base makes hiring new engineers difficult, etc.Literally had to rewrite other engineer's code when they left the company because that was less effort than adopting the language across the team.