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by deanCommie 2052 days ago
Somehow I don't think physical laborers ever complain when they get new and more powerful tools to make their job easier.

It's only software engineers that bemoan their lives getting easier, so they can spend more time working on other problems higher up the abstraction chain.

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The 'problems higher up the abstraction chain' are the ones that are closer to labour, or factory work. Mundane and repetitive, relatively speaking easy - requiring less thought and being to die extent trainable as working within a pattern/template.
How about when the new powerful tools help get rid of some of them due to productivity gain?
And you can spend that time thinking about how not to use a message broker... And maybe just use lower level MANAGED services, like SQS or SNS.