Just today I had to explain to a two-man team that using five Git repos and four different PaaS products for what is basically a single web control — not a whole site — is a bit nuts
They mumbled something about “architecture” before returning to tinker on their Rube Goldberg machine… which is four months late and missing half the required features.
There just isn’t any common sense in engineering and everyone applauds monstrously complex solutions.
The one lone wolf suggesting “maaaaybe this just needs to be a single project in a single repo deploying to a vanilla web site” gets suspicious looks from managers that have already approved the project opex budget.
They mumbled something about “architecture” before returning to tinker on their Rube Goldberg machine… which is four months late and missing half the required features.
There just isn’t any common sense in engineering and everyone applauds monstrously complex solutions.
The one lone wolf suggesting “maaaaybe this just needs to be a single project in a single repo deploying to a vanilla web site” gets suspicious looks from managers that have already approved the project opex budget.