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by anonsivalley652 2316 days ago
It's the internet of shit: behind-the-scenes edition. Tech media fawn over developer darlings who trot out their systemd's, K8s', OpenStack's and whichever flavor of the moment just happens to make their names in the blogosphere while leaving the technical debt externalities, bugs and added grand unified over-complexity to others to suffer under. Popularity, newness and media don't make anything inherently useful, necessary or better.. they just bring hype until proven otherwise.

I wouldn't be so against particular projects like OpenStack, k8s, OpenSSL, PHP and systemd if they weren't so awful in philosophy and execution. IMO, stacks, and projects too, need simplification, clear documentation and resilience before adding zillions of features that don't work, don't belong or don't add net value for the complexity/risks they bring.