Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
by sangnoir on Friday January 25, 2019 @02:46PM
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The argument is that the modern software system has become so complex, worrying about what the intent of the original design is almost pointless. Say a single-user app that was originally written in assembly for PDP and has now evolved (or wrapped) into a multi-cluster, multi-zoned gRPC service - how important is the original intent when it was never designed for the current use case?
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Re:US shutdown: Flight delays caused by staff shortages
by xtian on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:51PM
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If you want to do good engineering work on a complex system, it's imperative to understand and remain laser-focused on what the system as a whole is actually trying to accomplish. The original intent is never irrelevant in that context. In fact, it's the foundation for evaluating all the subsequent decisions that resulted in "a multi-cluster, multi-zoned gRPC service".