Re:Coding as a Career Isn't Right for Me
by jimmywanger on Friday January 29, 2016 @07:48PM
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No you can't write and support it yourself.
When you're dealing with load issues, ops, reporting, i18n, logging, and concurrency, you realize why the infrastructure is there and why it's a lot of work to push out a new feature.
The fact that you're not excited by it is why they're paying you, and NO, you cannot do it solo, not without a team behind you.
Before you say it's all in the cloud, most EC2 admins have to deal with unexpected outages, and it's not exciting in a good way. Fundamentally, 99% of everything is a glorified CRUD app.
When you're dealing with load issues, ops, reporting, i18n, logging, and concurrency, you realize why the infrastructure is there and why it's a lot of work to push out a new feature.
The fact that you're not excited by it is why they're paying you, and NO, you cannot do it solo, not without a team behind you.
Before you say it's all in the cloud, most EC2 admins have to deal with unexpected outages, and it's not exciting in a good way. Fundamentally, 99% of everything is a glorified CRUD app.