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by foobarxyzzy
818 days ago
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On balance, devs have more agency than ever before, but they choose to use it to load in every daft technology imaginable that makes their resume look good. IMO developers are less and less inclined to act like professionals that bring data to the decision table, so as to create meaningful business solutions. Take scaling for instance: there is such a thing as unnecessary scaling. I've seen junior devs in AWS shops insist on embedding insane levels of serverless AWS tech, all to serve minimal systems with minimal data and bandwidth and minimal customers. When questioned about the drivers for all of this scaling, they have no reply - its all fairly obvious that they feel that they do not have a career without all of the latest TLAs on their resume. Apart from creating billions for Jeff Bezos, this is creating bloat on staggering levels. PMs are often unable (or unwilling) to push back, because who wants to questions devs these days? |
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I see senior devs doing that all the time as well; they have resumes to work on as well. Applications that probably will not get more than a few 10000 hits a day, if that, getting set up and stress tested so someone can say ‘set up app that could handle millions of hits a minute’. All on the company’s dime of course.