In retrospect, it's quite funny in light of how webapps and Cloud evolved. As Spolsky predicted in 1998:
"between Microsoft and Google the starting salary for a smart CS grad is inching dangerously close to six figures and these smart kids, the cream of our universities, are working on hopeless and useless architecture astronomy because these companies are like cancers, driven to grow at all cost, even though they can’t think of a single useful thing to build for us"
Man, I normally have some respect for Spolsky's writing, but this one is overly-dismissive crap. Sure, Microsoft really needed to reel in the 13 versions of OneDrive they kept releasing and rereleasing, but that's the only part of the article that aged even remotely well.
"And the fact that customers never asked for this feature and none of the earlier versions really took off as huge platforms doesn’t stop him."
Go ahead, try and take away that feature now, see if any customers complain.
Its claim to fame was bringing the term Architecture Astronaut into common parlance.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/05/01/architecture-astro...
In retrospect, it's quite funny in light of how webapps and Cloud evolved. As Spolsky predicted in 1998:
"between Microsoft and Google the starting salary for a smart CS grad is inching dangerously close to six figures and these smart kids, the cream of our universities, are working on hopeless and useless architecture astronomy because these companies are like cancers, driven to grow at all cost, even though they can’t think of a single useful thing to build for us"