The Bulk of Software Engineering Is Just Plumbing (2018)

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"Small to medium sized businesses rarely deal with scaling or optimization problems anymore"

This is obvious when you look at any modern web framework (back-end or front-end). Companies would just rather throw hardware at the problem and use a bloated, inefficient framework that makes hundreds of extra calls and overly-complex caching mechanisms.

Sure, because scaling expertise and developer time are more expensive than hardware (at that size). It's not elegant, but it's economical.

It makes my job easier. I can get my job done in a few hours with a framework rather than toil away for a much longer amount of time writing efficient and fast code.

I feel like it's the early 2000s again. Instead of only having to know a little html, you just need to be able to mash together a couple of frameworks and you can make a good living.

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