[mathw]

The author blames "senior developers" for library usage policies. I've been a senior (now principal) developer for well over a decade and we've never had a single say in anything like that. That's when the compliance team and the lawyers get involved.

I can't argue with most of the rest of it though.

.NET is only just fit for purpose, still. Azure is atrocious. I didn't choose any of this, it's our CTO who decided we'd build our new platform on Azure, with loads of support from Microsoft promised.

Hah.

At least I get to solve interesting problems - and they'd be interesting and difficult on any platform.

[jen20]

What industry do you work in? I’ve done the gamut of regulated industry work - medical, defense, banking etc, and never run into this. Aaron is (as usual) spot on with his analysis.

[rswskg]

you have lawyers sign off your libs?

[nunez]

this is fairly common in the gov and financial sectors (but it's enterprise architects or security engineers doing the signing)