I'm wondering how on earth are people supposed to provide for a family these days?
the techno optimism has been absolutely insane. celebrating that people won't have jobs anymore, that robots will be doing everything and that how the human species is just a stepping stone or something and if you resist you're a "specist" (famously said by Larry Page)
I think it's just that k8s allows you to shoot yourself in the foot, thus it gets all the blame.
when in reality, you can go very bare-bones with k8s, but people pretend like only the most extreme complexity is what's possible because it's not easy to admit that k8s is actually quite practical in a lot of ways, especially for avoiding drift and automation
agreed. I think if we all went with this HN mindset of "html4 and PHP work just fine" we wouldn't have gone anywhere with regards to all the technical advancements we enjoy today in the software space
I think one big problem is that using microservice architecture doesn't mean that literally everything has to be a "microservice". if you don't truly need granual scaling (i.e. your "app" doesn't get a bunch of asymmetric loads across different paths), then you can just have more monolithic "microservices" until they need to be split up
Before microservices became trendy, there was something called SOA (service oriented architecture). Microservices is but one application of that pattern where each service is minimal.
SOAs have most utility in scaling teams, not software: creating independent services allows autonomy to independent teams if they apply a few simple patterns for good SOA.
not sure if this is a thing with Cloud vendors, but e.g. in Finance, you'll definitely get the opportunity to call your rep over for free fancy dinners or whatever you want, because those are "customer meetings"
you can already "compile" TS binaries with deno, but it'll include the runtime in it and etc. so it'll take some disk space but I think these days it's less of a concern than before
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