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When I was younger, I was much more enticed with new technologies. But as I grow older, I've grown much more cynical. I just want to solve problems with ideally as little coding/thinking as possible.

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When I was younger, I believed technology is developed to solve problems people have. Today, I've grown much more cynical, and believe that most technology is developed to sell worthless crap to other people, which may or may not occasionally do something useful for them (but not as much as it would do if the vendor actually cared).

Also known as consulting, conferences, trainings, certifications and books.

Yes, but also a lot of software products, open-source or not (a lot of open-source these days is created as a part of various business models of for-profit companies).

And articles like the submission often have "let me write an contrarian article for internet points, who cares about details" feel to me :/

K8s solved very real problems that might not be seen when you're running one app, shitty standard syslog and cloud-provided database. But those problems still exist, and k8s provided real, tangible benefit in operation where you don't need to remember thousand and one details of several services, because you have a common orchestration to use as abstraction.

Tech has become much more self-referential in the last years. Now we do tools that help build a system that can build an app to cash in minimal productivity gains

When I was younger, I was already suspicious of hyped, marketing-driven technologies and lock-in. But as I grow older, I've grown more aware at how people constantly ignore the problem.

I just want to solve problems with ideally as little complexity as possible.

Nothing cynical about it.

Old-man-yells-at-cloud.

Damn cloud.

Cloud get off my lawn.

In late-stage capitalism, the cloud gets you off "your" lawn, when your Lawn-as-a-Service provider gets acquihired by an adtech company.

"One of us...one of us..."

I am not that old, develop most apps besides embedded firmware for the cloud and have been yelling at it from the beginning to absolutely no effect. In my experience it is often C-level customers who embrace the cloud with most enthusiasm.

Interestingly the older generation often had the most reservations against hosting data on external systems. They are generally very big on everything surveillance though.

Yeah, every so often the bizdev guy at my office who also serves as our POC for the web developers pings me about some Azure IoT thing or another, and every time I read the documentation I think "that's great, if only we had any of the problems that that solves."

I think your comment is probably tongue-in-cheek but I still want to throw my support in with the person you replied to.

The longer I've been at the company I'm at, the less interested I am in how cool something is and the more interested I am in the least effort possible to keep the app running.

If you grow old and stay in this business, you'll be doing a lot of that too, I promise you.

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