Software development and related things are known to have fantastic often free online resources for autodidacts.
It seems like the trend in this space is to jump directly to the highest layer of abstraction. Skipping the fundamentals and point to $buzzword tools, libraries and products.
You see glimpses of this in different forms. One is social media threads which ask stuff like “How much of X do I need to know to learn Y?” Where X is a fundamental, possibly very stable technology or field and Y is some tool du jour or straight up a product or service.
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by failbuffer on Monday February 06, 2023 @06:42PM
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"complexity merchants" - I love this term. It aptly describes beneficiaries of earlier IT fads. Remember UML? Remember WS-*? One could come up with a long list of technologies that were a bonanza for billing consultant hours but no so great for getting to solutions.
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by switchbak on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:20PM
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The debacle that was J2EE is hard to top (but I'm sure some have!). I still have battle scars from OSGi.
CORBA belongs there. And perhaps even the semantic web stuff. Definitely XML!
SOAP, don't forget SOAP.
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by hooverd on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:05AM
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SOAP is great when it works. Ingest a WSDL file and boom you've got an API client.
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by 77pt77 on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:30AM
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And it almost never works if you use different frameworks.
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by hooverd on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:46AM
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Heh, lot of emphasis on "when it works".
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS?
by jstrebel on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @03:45AM
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To be fair - J2EE (and its associated technologies like SOAP, XML) is a bit like alcohol. It is great when used in moderation, but gives you headaches when used excessively.
XML is great - if you don't believe it, then you might be interested in the pains of parsing JSON: http://seriot.ch/projects/parsing_json.html And don't get me started on YAML...
I suspect that VendorOps and complex tools like kubernetes are favored by complexity merchants which have arisen in the past decade. It looks great on resume and gives tech leaders a false sense of achievement.
Meanwhile Stackoverflow, which is arguably more important than most startups, is chugging along on dedicated machines.
1: https://stackoverflow.blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-arc...