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I miss building simple, working software. At some point, we decided to complicate everything for no reason. Today, people can't build anything without using three frameworks, 17 libraries, and a swarm of microservices. And here is a funny paradox: To understand how these complex systems work, we've had to...

82,074 次观看 • 2 年前 •via X (Twitter)

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Xavier Cho 的头像
Xavier Cho2 年前

If you sincerely believe that there's no reason to use all those frameworks as you claimed, you should argue to get rid of them instead of selling yet another tool that's supposed to help people understand them.

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Santiago2 年前

One of the things I've always enjoyed is simplifying a complex process and making it faster and more efficient. Usually, the solution takes more than one approach. Cutting down unnecessary complexity is not just about "stop using these tools." Think of how you make a codebase simple to understand: you can remove unnecessary code, but you also need to rely on documentation.

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Cameron Poe2 年前

Santiago, you’re a great resource, but you need to lay off the paid promotions. I only want to see these types of posts and recommendations for software and services that you independently tested and utilized for a specific purpose in your work. Back to basics.

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Santiago2 年前

Appreciate the feedback. My job is to meet with founders, test what they are building, and bring the best of it here. I post about 1-2% of every pitch and opportunity I get. Many people discover new tools because of what I do, but I understand you might not find that valuable. I hope you can still find interesting things in what I do from time to time.

Ivan Velichko 的头像
Ivan Velichko2 年前

Am I getting it right that instead of simplifying infra, which is already hard to explain, they are building an AI engineer to operate it? Indeed, it'll be much easier to explain its behavior and the changes it makes...

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Santiago2 年前

They are building technology that helps people deal with the tools we have today. There are many opportunities in simplifying existing infrastructure. I hope we continue working on that direction, but that doesn't mean that's the only path we must focus on.

Mind Prison 的头像
Mind Prison2 年前

Seems we have arrived:

Jason Allen 的头像
Jason Allen2 年前

How is this different from offerings from Datadog, New Relic or the myriad of other observability options? Either way, prevention is much more interesting than detection. Where are the tools that help us prevent production issues?

Pawel Pachniewski 的头像
Pawel Pachniewski2 年前

I can't get over today's stack complexity either. Web has gone mad.

Brent Brookler 的头像
Brent Brookler2 年前

My most recent web app was php plus css, html and plain JavaScript that integrates with a python script. I do have some GA4.. so you don’t need all these frameworks and libraries.

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