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The opinions of developers about low code solutions are not very relevant.

Low/no code solutions exist for when there isn't enough time or budget for a developer created solution, which is to say, pretty much all always. In the real world of business problems, almost nobody has access to a professional developer.

I suspect as with most things in education, they focus on small self contained problems because it's easier to teach and easier to grade. These toy problems end up being all students know and therefore are what employers select on.

I'm a little confused by this comment. It feels like you are complaining about the problems that are solved by configuration management and infrastructure as code, yet you seem to reject it as too complicated.

All the problems you raise are solved by infrastructure as code.

To understand how ancient this is, the Worshipful Company of Carmen's history began in 1272.

For US audiences, this operated as something like the DMV, hundreds of years before anyone had thought of such a thing. Over time obviously, these functions were taken over by a national government agency, but as the Worshipful Company of Carmen had had hundreds of years of history until that point, the traditions were kept in ceremonial form.

I find a lot of people conflate both service separation for human factors and service separation for technical factors.

Unless you have multiple independent development teams you do not need to worry about the human factors. Addressing them fully is always going to come at a technical cost in terms of things like latency and complexity.

Separation for technical reasons (generally scaling) may well be a factor but easily addressed without building 'true' microservices, for example with serverless functions.

Don't let the purists sneer at your architecture because it's not true microservices.

I think this is the answer for me. You kind of want friends, but at the same time you don't want to have to put any obligations or effort in and definitely don't want to feel forced to hang out with them.

I think we want the kind of friends who would be fine with a quarterly meetup for a fun activity, and little contact or obligation outside of that time.

What I find absolutely mystifying about Meta's VR experiment is that they did not leverage the colossal advantage they have in that for facebook users, they know your friend network and interests.

Why is the Meta product so catastrophically naff? What went wrong?

The Perfect Commit 4 years ago

When in a serverless environment it's easy to get into a situation where you need to commit to deploy and test anything. Then git squash is essential, unless you're the only developer.

I have started to use lambda for serving an API backend and VueJS for the frontend.

Although there's a lack of nice frameworks, Lambda is great, being incredibly cheap and almost no scaling worries.

However for me developing a SPA front end is far more complex and problematic than in the Django days.

That's why when you are using a polished product, all that detail is hidden from you, and not explained or mentioned at all.

It's just how it is, take it or leave it. To get away with this you need to have sufficient authority and agency however.