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1. Craig Maloney ☕ (craigmaloney@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 21:24:44 EDT Craig Maloney ☕

   Modern systems architecture sounds a lot less sexy when you replace terms like "containers" and "serverless" with "kicking the can down the stack to make maintaining this shit someone else's problem".

   1. Doc Edward Morbius ⭕ (dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 01:36:01 EDT Doc Edward Morbius ⭕

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      @craigmaloney Packaging systems, Debian's APT in particular, are hated by SW devs for much the same reason they're valued by sysadmins: they front-load integration, dependency resolution, upgrade dynamics, etc. More up-front work, far less hassle down the road, for far more people.

      The can is kicked /up/ the stack.

   2. Carl Cravens (carlcravens@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 22:05:07 EDT Carl Cravens

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      @craigmaloney The thing that gets me is kicking the can down the stack always results in *more* complexity. And managers talk like this is going to save us time and effort.