Re:The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
by dkersten on Monday January 22, 2018 @06:51AM
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> I learnt that almost nobody except the developer and maybe one or two peer-developers cares about good quality code.
No, but they do care that this seemingly (to them) trivial change a year later takes two weeks instead of half a day.
> How do you retain your motivation to be a good developer in such a situation?
I honestly don’t know. I’m currently taking a little time out from work, but I’m dreading going back in a month because right now, I am completely disinterested in computers and especially software, things I used to love and be incredibly passionate about. Now with stuff like meltdown and spectre, technology just seems like this dumb house of cards and I have no energy for this BS. I’m pretty sure its burnout and it will pass eventually, but I just hope it does so soon as I don’t know how else to pay the bills.
On the plus side, I’ve spent a lot less time at the computer these last few weeks and spent time on other interests, including learning sleight of hand and card magic. :-P
No, but they do care that this seemingly (to them) trivial change a year later takes two weeks instead of half a day.
> How do you retain your motivation to be a good developer in such a situation?
I honestly don’t know. I’m currently taking a little time out from work, but I’m dreading going back in a month because right now, I am completely disinterested in computers and especially software, things I used to love and be incredibly passionate about. Now with stuff like meltdown and spectre, technology just seems like this dumb house of cards and I have no energy for this BS. I’m pretty sure its burnout and it will pass eventually, but I just hope it does so soon as I don’t know how else to pay the bills.
On the plus side, I’ve spent a lot less time at the computer these last few weeks and spent time on other interests, including learning sleight of hand and card magic. :-P