Sometimes I wonder if modern corporate culture has adopted soviet style newspeak.
Why are we immigrating to the new thing? For the same reasons as we migrated to the old thing. Why is the new thing better? Because it’s just so much better.
Why are we immigrating to the new thing? For the same reasons as we migrated to the old thing. Why is the new thing better? Because it’s just so much better.
I’m not saying modern tooling is useless; I don’t use ed, cc, and make for my development. But there’s a huge difference between a zero to one tooling effort and an N to N+1 tooling effort. The first one requires figuring out all the implicit/implied/manual parts of the process. The second one is often just turning one set of configuration languages into another.
We just observed it happen. As the engineers, we did our job best we could regardless. Things broke, we fixed. Somethings rolled back, and even for those they claimed credit & celebrated for re-inventing the wheel.
Spot on. There's a serious point of diminishing returns when piling up tools.
At some point the cost of learning, adapting, deploying, maintaining yet another tool becomes a net negative.
Often the solution is to replace 5 fancy tools with 100 lines of Python and Bash.