You will be invested in the workflow and toolchain building.
Barely anyone uses it, so have fun training up new hires.
Some folks just straight up left the company rather than get sucked into a new DSL
Frankly, the AWS SDK works great. The documentation includes working examples, is available in familiar syntax, I avoid CF’s opinions, and state is stored in the release branch.
I can successfully rebuild any version of our infra by checking out a git hash.
Meanwhile month old Terraform and cue break because a middleman had a brilliant idea at 1AM or some reason.
IMO devops as an idea jumped the shark almost immediately. Folks decided developer habits were to be added to ops habits, but on the ground it just meant “use source control”. No other wisdom, like don’t repeat yourself and write less code, came along.
I think SRE was meant to fix that but the same people and perspectives just took that over with DSL hell too
I’m don’t burn out on tech work. I burn out on tech worker bullshit
It’s a very friendly Googler’s fever dream.
It’s HCL without a Terraform command.
You will be invested in the workflow and toolchain building.
Barely anyone uses it, so have fun training up new hires.
Some folks just straight up left the company rather than get sucked into a new DSL
Frankly, the AWS SDK works great. The documentation includes working examples, is available in familiar syntax, I avoid CF’s opinions, and state is stored in the release branch.
I can successfully rebuild any version of our infra by checking out a git hash.
Meanwhile month old Terraform and cue break because a middleman had a brilliant idea at 1AM or some reason.
IMO devops as an idea jumped the shark almost immediately. Folks decided developer habits were to be added to ops habits, but on the ground it just meant “use source control”. No other wisdom, like don’t repeat yourself and write less code, came along.
I think SRE was meant to fix that but the same people and perspectives just took that over with DSL hell too
I’m don’t burn out on tech work. I burn out on tech worker bullshit