[nathants]

what makes infra hard is the large delta between what you think exists and what actually exists. the larger the delta, the worse everything gets.

the only mitigation to this is less. less tooling, less infra, less abstractions. you want that delta approaching zero as uptime goes to infinity.

i’m not sure how replacing walls of code with walls of yaml of walls of gui graphs change anything at all.

i suppose it’s possible some paradigm leap in infra understandability is hiding in crazy nextgen ui/ux, but i’m not holding my breath.

the last leap i encountered was moving from the python sdk to the go sdk for manipulating aws. this was significant, but still more of a qol improvement than something fundamental to the solution space.