Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professionalism too high?

Re:Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professio... by reallydontask on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:40AM (#23429071)

> Once you're experienced writing Infrastructure as Code, you always use it, no matter how small the project is.

It's a good idea to start early with IaC but one of the marks of a good engineer is knowing what tooling to use for each circumstance.

Your app might be a perfect fit for Terraform or it might not, I couldn't possibly comment. Given the info you've provided it seems excessive but it's hard to say for sure

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Re:Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professio... by ncallaway on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:52AM (#23429218)

I can't think of a project of any size that terraform would be excessive for.

Agree, if you're introducing it to a new team and don't have time to teach the tooling that could be problematic.

But being somewhat familiar with Terraform I would use it to launch a single EC2 instance. Because it's about as fast to do that as it would be for me to use the AWS Console.

It's not that I think Terraform is needed for that small of a project, it's that it adds no cost even for tiny projects.

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Re:Ask HN: Are my expectations on code quality and professio... by reallydontask on Friday June 05, 2020 @12:39PM (#23430473)

The original comment suggested that Terraform was being introduced at the wrong time.

You are right that size is not the best measure of suitability.

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