Daily Archives: 2022-04-11

Article note: ...speaking of bad trends in infrastructure. Atlassian has been big on the "We're going to transition all our on-prem customers to ~~serfdom~~ cloud" annnnd multi-week outage.

Article note: Gaming metrics gets rewarded over intended behaviors until it drives out the intended behaviors: the tragedy of society. Academia is _deep_ in it these days.

Article note: "I used hipster tooling (node, docker), it drifted at an unsustainable pace, and now this software is unmaintainable" It's a pretty classy way to go out, but does high-viz display the ecosystem problem. Especially the lie of adding complexity to hide complexity in the container layer actually making things easier long term.