Reading this I couldn’t help but think: yeah all of these points make sense in isolation, but if you look at the big picture, this is an absurd level of complexity.
Why do we need entire teams making 1000s of micro decisions to deploy our app?
I’m hungry for a simpler way, and I doubt I’m alone in this.
You’re not alone. There is a constant undercurrent of pushback against this craziness. You see it all the time here on hacker news and with people I talk to irl.
Does not mean each of these things don’t solve problems. The issue as always about complexity-utility tradeoff. Some of these things have too much complexity for too little utility. I’m not qualified to judge here, but if the suspects have Turing-complete-yaml-templates on their hands, it probably ties them to the crime scene.
The problem was: too much money, too few consequences for burning it.
The existence of the uber-wealthy means that markets can no longer function efficiently. Every market remains irrational longer than anyone who's not uber-wealthy can remain solvent.
Why do we need entire teams making 1000s of micro decisions to deploy our app?
I’m hungry for a simpler way, and I doubt I’m alone in this.