Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015)
by jacquesm on Sunday February 21, 2021 @05:00AM
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My main recipe for crisis management when a company is about to go off the rails or if it has already happened: cut down on complexity. 9 out of 10 times that's enough to get things moving again. Highly frustrating that we keep making these mistakes over and over again without ever learning from them. Complexity has a price, you should only spend it if you really need it.
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It’s hard enough managing code complexity in software projects; introducing tooling into the stack that exacerbates the issues is definitely a large own goal.
One of the main culprits is often virtualization. Used without a good understanding of what goes on under the hood it is super easy to create a situation that heavily overloads some data path to storage without being aware of it because it's all so nicely abstracted away. Fifty virtual machines trying to access the same storage layer is a pretty good recipe for a disaster.