Re:Scalability Is Overrated
by kirse on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:26PM
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I'm not sure if Spirit of an Engineer is a book, essay, or some prior set of principles I'm unaware of
Good idea, you are welcome to help me hone my later chapters. For me the engineering spirit - especially in software - is being a creator/builder. At the core, someone who takes the Legos in front of them and creates with those pieces.
A couple people took my "grandest" comment as a nod toward scale/size/narcissism, which is reasonable, and I meant it more in terms of total architectural completeness - i.e. a system perfectly fulfilling all the requirements that necessitated its creation. A blade of grass is not "grand" in the primary sense, but it still is grand + magnificent by its own perfection in design.
Good idea, you are welcome to help me hone my later chapters. For me the engineering spirit - especially in software - is being a creator/builder. At the core, someone who takes the Legos in front of them and creates with those pieces.
A couple people took my "grandest" comment as a nod toward scale/size/narcissism, which is reasonable, and I meant it more in terms of total architectural completeness - i.e. a system perfectly fulfilling all the requirements that necessitated its creation. A blade of grass is not "grand" in the primary sense, but it still is grand + magnificent by its own perfection in design.