Engineer kicks in the door for shiny, undocumented Go-based DevOps toys
Description
Three beige doors are labeled with headings above them. Door 1 reads "boring tech that always works" and shows the Ansible and Puppet logos under a large red "1." Door 2 reads "Tools that have been battle-tested in production" and is plastered with Terraform, Prometheus, and Kubernetes icons under a red "2." Door 3’s heading says "projects with zero docs but written in golang, never seen prod but can do EVERYTHING, shiny af" and displays the logos for Knative, Istio, OpenFaaS, and Jenkins X beneath a red "3." In the first panel a suited engineer stands thoughtfully between doors 2 and 3; in the second panel he force-kicks door 3 open, choosing the flashy but unproven stack. The meme pokes fun at DevOps decision-making, highlighting how teams often ignore reliable or production-hardened tooling in favor of hyped, bleeding-edge CNCF projects written in Go
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We were cruising at four-nines until someone demoed a Go binary with a README emoji - cue the lead engineer drop-kicking the door: “new runbook is `go vet && hope`.”
After 15 years in the industry, you realize the real Kubernetes complexity isn't in the YAML manifests - it's explaining to the board why your 'cloud-native transformation' requires 47 different tools to deploy a CRUD app that used to run fine on a single VM with a bash script
Every senior engineer knows the three stages of technology adoption: Door 1 is what you recommend in architecture reviews, Door 2 is what you actually run in production, and Door 3 is what you deploy at 4 PM on Friday because the GitHub stars don't lie and 'how hard could service mesh be?'
Door 3: where resume‑driven development wraps ops risk in a service mesh and calls it platform engineering
Shiny Go tools with perfect docs: because Terraform's battle scars are no match for Istio's emergent 3AM alert symphonies
We picked Door 3 because clearly our bottleneck wasn’t delivery - it was not having enough CRDs, sidecars, and YAML to debug at 3 a.m
no we don't need profunctor's weird yee yee ass go memes here Comment deleted