I am heavily reminded of OpenStack, which was designed by committee to help large companies' IT departments compete against AWS (and flopped), and AWS, which grew out of a flat file storage service (and very much succeeded).
It still amazes me how warty and ugly production code can be sometimes -- yet it works and puts food on the table. Meanwhile "beautiful" systems like Plan 9 languish on an old wiki somewhere.
It still amazes me how warty and ugly production code can be sometimes -- yet it works and puts food on the table. Meanwhile "beautiful" systems like Plan 9 languish on an old wiki somewhere.