Just One More Platform Tool
Description
A crying man stares into the camera while large white meme text says, "please bro, just one more tool in our stack ... just one more ... then we can focus on the business logic ... bro believe me this will be the last one ... come on, just one more tool so we can scale reliably ... bro please we really need this one ..." Along the bottom is a crowded pile of cloud-native and DevOps logos, including k6, Argo, Docker, Terraform, AWS, Istio, Envoy, Grafana, Kubernetes, Helm, GitHub, OpenShift, Dapr, OpenTelemetry, and KServe. The visual overload mirrors the architecture overload: every operational concern adds another dashboard, controller, mesh, sidecar, or YAML dialect. The meme targets the familiar platform-engineering spiral where enabling business logic somehow requires a small CNCF tradeshow in the dependency graph.
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At this point the business logic is just a sidecar attached to the platform team's dependency graph.
Yeah, we need more things for byte replacing! Comment deleted
3 out of 4 of my pretty popular webdev projects were implemented in a single vanilla js file with no build system Comment deleted
but are they innovative, groundbreaking and game-changing? Comment deleted
i would say yes, a lot of people hold that sentiment they solved the particular problems well, and the word of mouth carried them pretty far because of that Comment deleted
i sold one of them, and another one is obsolete by being innovated upon further (this time with a bigger stack than a plain JS file) Comment deleted