The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015)

Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by indigochill on Monday December 09, 2019 @07:11AM (#21741962)

>When you've noticed your wiring has become a complete mess of knots, just put it in a box so no one will trip.

On the other side of the coin, putting stuff in boxes is the essence of architecture. CPU opcodes? Boxes. Compiling readable code into bytecode? Boxes. Objects? Boxes. Functions? Boxes.

Sure, it can be abused. There might be spaghetti in those boxes. The spaghetti should be chopped into digestible chunks (smaller boxes!). But putting it in a box makes that an implementation detail. Putting stuff in boxes is still progress.

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by bluGill on Monday December 09, 2019 @07:25AM (#21742023)

All problems in programming can be solved by adding another layer of abstraction (ie a box) - except too many layers of abstraction.

Good architecture is not about putting things into boxes, but about figuring out what boxes you need and which you do not. Sometimes a box is good, sometimes a box is bad. It isn't the fault of the box that it does't contain the right thing.

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