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Re:Software Developer Shortage Is Coming by dantheman on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:54PM (#27606727)
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.

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Re:Software Developer Shortage Is Coming by danabrams on Friday June 25, 2021 @08:48AM (#27630089)
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.

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Re:Software Developer Shortage Is Coming by rightbyte on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @01:50PM (#27607604)
> 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.

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Re:Software Developer Shortage Is Coming by adrianN on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @02:09PM (#27607891)
Adding a server helps with the reliability of my backups :)
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