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It’s becoming pretty clear that you’ve never seen the power of these tools in action.

I don’t think I proved your point at all. I very explicitly showed the opposite.

I’ve worked at companies that ingest petabytes of data, processing it would just not be possible without hadoop and sister tech (chiefly hdfs). Hundreds of developers working on a common codebase that would not have been possible without modern ci/cd solutions. Data pipelines whose reliability would be 0 without a modern rpc system like thrift to ensure system interfaces are well defined and consistent.

There are very real and practical use cases for these technologies. Just because you haven’t experienced them doesn’t mean that they’re overkill. Just because enterprise engineers like to overengineer using these tools does not mean that everyone does. There are very real scenarios where these tools have helped smaller companies and startups to punch beyond their weight.



Mate I'm with you, they're extremely powerful tools and it's basically magic what a few good engineers can build with modern tooling.

When you say enterprise engineers that's 80+ percent of our profession. My gripe is only with lack of standards and misusing those tools without understanding them properly, which happens all the time


Understood. Apologies for the Curt tone in my earlier comment. Cranky before morning coffee.




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