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0 pointsgambler5y ago0 comments

>Complexity always exists somewhere. You can't remove it, only try it make it easier to deal with.

This is simply not true. Most complexity in today's systems is completely avoidable. Most developers are just mentally stuck and don't even try. "Managing" complexity is a great way to achieve job security without becoming good at anything specific. Instead of learning how to design system people are learning how to write config files.

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manigandham5y ago

That's a different argument. Not needing it doesn't mean it doesn’t exist.

If you don't need Kubernetes then don't use it. But if you do then you can't make it any simpler than the complexity needed to deliver the functionality.

Built in deployments, process health, logging, load balancing, security, high availability, config and secret management, volumes and persistence, and much more in exchange for some YAML files is a pretty good encapsulation of complexity though.

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0 pointsgambler5y ago0 comments

>Complexity always exists somewhere. You can't remove it, only try it make it easier to deal with.

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manigandham5y ago

That's a different argument. Not needing it doesn't mean it doesn’t exist.

If you don't need Kubernetes then don't use it. But if you do then you can't make it any simpler than the complexity needed to deliver the functionality.

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