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The Ultimate Over-Engineering: Jira for Your Factorio Server
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The Ultimate Over-Engineering: Jira for Your Factorio Server

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A screenshot of a tweet from the user 'autism hexafluoride' (@servomechanica), whose profile picture is the logo for the game Factorio. The tweet, displayed in white text on a black background, reads: 'if your factorio server doesn't have a jira are you even trying'. This meme presents a satirical take on engineer culture, specifically the tendency to apply complex, professional-grade tools and methodologies to personal hobbies. It juxtaposes the video game 'Factorio,' which is famous for its intricate automation and logistics challenges that appeal to engineers, with 'Jira,' a corporate project management tool often associated with formal processes and bureaucracy. The joke is that a Factorio server, a setup for a game, should be managed with the same seriousness as a major software project, complete with issue tracking and sprints. This resonates with experienced developers who understand both the obsessive optimization inherent in playing Factorio and the corporate reality of using Jira

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick My Factorio board has more tickets in the 'Spaghetti Belt' epic than our production app has in the entire backlog. The factory must grow, and so must the process overhead
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    My Factorio board has more tickets in the 'Spaghetti Belt' epic than our production app has in the entire backlog. The factory must grow, and so must the process overhead

  2. Anonymous

    We spun up a “casual” Factorio server - by hour three we had Jira epics for copper throughput, a CI pipeline validating blueprint PRs, and someone filing an RFC to deprecate spaghetti belts. Apparently prod trauma follows you even into pixelated factories

  3. Anonymous

    Next you'll tell me your Minecraft server doesn't have a full CI/CD pipeline with automated rollbacks, comprehensive monitoring dashboards, and a dedicated SRE team managing your redstone contraptions' SLAs

  4. Anonymous

    The real endgame isn't launching a rocket in Factorio - it's when your server's Jira backlog has more tickets than your production codebase, complete with sprint planning for belt optimization and retrospectives on why the biters keep breaking through. Bonus points if you've integrated it with Confluence for factory layout documentation and set up a CI/CD pipeline that deploys blueprint strings

  5. Anonymous

    Factorio without Jira is a sandbox; with Jira it’s production - P1 biter incidents, CAB‑approved train schedules, and a copper‑bus epic blocked on ‘Find Oil.’

  6. Anonymous

    Factorio factories without Jira? That's just untracked tech debt waiting for the biters to expose your SLAs

  7. Anonymous

    Factorio is the only side project where JIRA feels natural: WIP limits are belts, backpressure is the main bus, and every Sev-1 postmortem ends with “unbounded queue: copper.”

  8. @leklaanc 1y

    It's impossible to complete space age for this much days unless you have all day and night or you're playing with cheats btw

    1. @Algoinde 1y

      Everything is possible when you have a jira!

      1. @leklaanc 1y

        You are absolutely right, everything is possible with jira and a big corporation

    2. dev_meme 1y

      I mean, you don’t need to finish it to be done with it 🌚

      1. @leklaanc 1y

        Okay, returning my words back

    3. @pulsar_sp 1y

      lol, not even trying (according to the meme) and already at the Aquilo so I assume if I had Jira set up... maybe I would've already)

  9. @Sun_Serega 1y

    It's totally possible with speedrun strats, and I see how I could've done it, but instead i'm enjoying my vocation and building actual good factories... so far only on 3 planets

  10. @divere_tg 1y

    still not completed, and even not on second planet, you should prepare your main base to full control without your character on main planet before you leave

  11. @divere_tg 1y

    it's pretty hard

  12. @the_doom_guy 1y

    I started a new playthrough

  13. @the_doom_guy 1y

    Warm memories of playing while at a work meeting... And why I deleted it after the first rocket

  14. @pulsar_sp 1y

    I think it's kinda dumb to try and build a proper factory from a get go on a first playthrough when there's so much new stuff to figure out - so 60SPM it is.

  15. @callofvoid0 1y

    never have played it gotta try maybe factorio ,satisfactory and mindustry

    1. @pulsar_sp 1y

      Dyson Sphere Program is also a blast Also was probably the hardest one of the big 3 before the Space Age, at least for a genre newcomer

  16. @pulsar_sp 1y

    and it isn't even released yet*

  17. @unknwnOlg 1y

    Jira is more useful in Greg Tech : New Horizons

  18. @callofvoid0 1y

    why jira?

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