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by marcinzm 3247 days ago
>Most current trends seem to be towards increasing baggage. (docker)

I'd disagree, docker for example makes it easier to create infrastructure as code which in turn makes it easier to replace pieces of that infrastructure. Same with micro-services which allow you to eventually replace isolated pieces of your infrastructure. The more modular and isolated pieces of code and infrastructure are the easier they are to replace piecemeal.
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toomuchtodo 3247 days ago
Disagree. Simplicity in unnecessary abstractions is still convuluted.

Although, I concede Docker is the bees knees for local dev.

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lmm 3247 days ago
Docker is a step backwards in terms of how transparent/code-ey your infrastructure is - a docker container is very opaque and you easily end up duplicating things between multiple containers in slightly different ways, whereas e.g. puppet was much more friendly to DRY.
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pier25 3247 days ago
I'm guessing the smallest possible chunk of code is a cloud function.

Easy to rewrite, replace, and deploy.

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