Re:Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
by adrianN on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:48PM
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The systems we can build today with a small team are much more complicated than what we could do ten years ago. It's just that we also somehow managed to solve essentially the same problems we solved ten years ago with much more complex software.
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Re:Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
by dkdbejwi383 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @01:17PM
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Yeah you’re still gonna write CRUD apps, just with two different databases, 5 queues, 12 microservices and tons of terraform to glue it together
Re:Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
by eeZah7Ux on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:54PM
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...or worse, docker and kubernetes.
Re:Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
by dantheman on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:54PM
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Scale and uptime - systems today are designed to scale and handle faults in ways that were impossible in the past. That brings complexity.
Larger teams also ship faster, there's a lot of complexity to enable that collaboration.
Larger teams ship faster?
My experience is that in most situations larger teams ship slower, precisely because of the collaboration costs you mention. There are ways to reduce the dependencies, but most organizations can't get there.
Re:Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
by rightbyte on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @01:50PM
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> handle faults in ways that were impossible in the past
Like what? Earlier systems worked if your computer worked. Adding a server is a DRM move and doesn't help the user with reliability - usually the opposite.