DevDiscuss

S1:E3 - Unpopular Opinions in Software Development

May 27 '20

Developers can have pretty opinions about their industry, and we wanted to air out our most unpopular ones, your most unpopular ones, as well as Kelsey Hightower's, staff developer advocate at Google.

Show Notes

Fastly (sponsor)
Heroku (sponsor)
Commerce.js (sponsor)
DigitalOcean (sponsor)
Puppet
Kubernetes
Distributed system
Serverless
Domain Name System (DNS)
Microservices
Service mesh
Monolith
Sandi Metz
Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
COBOL, a 60-year-old computer language, is in the COVID-19 spotlight
On-prem
Microsoft Azure
AWS Outposts
Anthos
Vanilla JS
jQuery
Preact
Firefox
Google Chrome
Flash
ActiveX
Reader Mode in Safari
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Flexbox
CSS grid
Bootstrap
Sass
Swift
Objective-C
Docker
DevOps

Kelsey Hightower

Kelsey HIghtower is a staff developer advocate at Google.

Episode source

Thibault ROHMER • Jun 9 '20

"Those tools have the most value when you have a lots of applications to deploy" ❤️
"Microservices come with a tremendous amount of overhead. And most companies should consider building what would be traditionally described as a monolithic application and get really good at that before considering a new architecture pattern that may come with a lot more requirements than what they're currently doing." ❤️

"Docker and Kubernetes are not solution to your scalability problems" ❤️

Yep, when you look at tech blogs (netflix, amazon, uber, ...), you can see the amount of pain they've been through!