That’s actually a great point that I did overlook.

You know, this really has me pondering my projects architecture. We have tiers of services.

At the top, we have the UI. Then we have a “consumer” an “orchestra” and a “data” tier.

Data is the tier that exclusively talks to databases. Orchestra talks to the multiple data services. A good chunk of business logic is here. Consumer uses the orchestra and handles UI requests.

All it essentially does is split the monolith into 3 services at minimum. And since it’s on the cloud, there’s a start up cost where we need to spin up 3 machines instead of whatever you can do with microservices. What benefit do I get?

The managers do say “move fast and break things.”

They don’t like it when we do which is odd.

All it takes is one major player to want their payout.

One. I will bet you anything it will be a bank or hedge fund.

Been there too OP. Not a good place.

It’s usually easier to find another job, it will reset your mind, and fear won’t be driving you.

Or you could just commit what you have, comment “YOLO” and auto resolve conflicts and push.

The concept of foreign languages in code confuses and frightens me

Yep. You’re right.

I couldn’t possibly think anyone would do that with CSS which is why it caught me off guard.

Wait, that last one. It’s a syntax I don’t recognize. What is this slightly less nonsensical design?

Hehehehe

You absolutely won’t be disappointed by explosing your database to SQL directly from the API.

It’s the plan I make my employer pay for until they let me stop using it.

Jesus fuck we’re doomed.

Is this why a bunch of us senior engineers have been forced into a product owner role?

Because we can somehow deal with string parsing better? Jesus fuck we’re doomed

Whatever the fuck my role is now seeing a feature work as intended:

“Oh thank fuck I don’t have to write more Azure Devops Stories.”

Oh, fair. That’s a good point.

Ok, see the sandboxing makes sense and for a language like C++ makes sense. But every other language I used it with is already portable to every OS I have access to, so it feels like that defeats the benefit of using a language that’s portable.

Well, I guess that’s a good reason. Node version management seems to handle most of that for me though. I haven’t worked on an OS without support for it.

Ok

So, confession time.

I don’t understand docker at all. Everyone at work says “but it makes things so easy.” But it doesnt make things easy. It puts everything in a box, executes things in a box, and you have to pull other images to use in your images, and it’s all spaghetti in the end anyway.

If I can build an Angular app the same on my Linux machine and my windows PC, and everything works identically on either, and The only thing I really have to make sure of is that the deployment environment has node and the angular CLI installed, how is that not simpler than everything you need to do to set up a goddamn container?

I would not be a slight bit surprised if all of those guys tried to have a synthol pp.

Well

That’s horrifying. I thought it was way cooler that I could make my own muscles bigger by diet and exercise but maybe cool is different in different parts of the world

You have met every team I have ever worked with apparently