Don't Blame The Intern

Content Glenn F. Henriksen henriksen When men refer to themselves as "alpha males", I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public. 6:45 AM 2022-10-15 from Stavanger, Norway Twitter for Android 11.6K Retweets 480 Quote Tweets 68.6K Likes

The SCARIEST jack-o'-lantern known to developer-kind! A pumpkin carved with the dreaded "US EAST-1" AWS region and flames above it is the ULTIMATE horror story! Nothing says "I've experienced TRUE TERROR" like having your entire infrastructure collapse because Jeff Bezos' primary data center decided to have a little afternoon nap. The flames are just *chef's kiss* - a perfect representation of the Slack channels, production dashboards, and developer sanity burning to the ground simultaneously while everyone frantically refreshes the AWS status page. Sweet dreams, cloud engineers!

Hiring managers living in a parallel universe where Java has existed since the 1970s and humans code until they're 90. Nothing says "entry-level position" quite like requiring 45 years of experience in technologies that haven't existed that long. Spring Boot was released in 2014, React in 2013, and Kubernetes in 2014 - but sure, let's pretend someone's been mastering them since the Nixon administration. The best part? This is probably still listed as a "junior developer" role paying $45K with "room for growth." Time to dust off that time machine in my garage...

Death (DNS) is knocking on GCP's door after already claiming AWS and Azure as victims. When your cloud provider's DNS goes down, everything goes down with it. Three major outages in recent memory, and engineers everywhere are just waiting for the GCP massacre to complete the unholy trinity. Nothing like watching your entire infrastructure implode because someone fat-fingered a DNS config change that propagated globally in seconds. Hope you've got a good incident response template ready!

Content rAskReddit Posted by uworldtraveler100 10h What technology are you shocked has not advanced yet? 4 26.8k J 14.6k Share Award BEST COMMENTS RegulatoryCapture 4h 1 Award The legal code. Computer programmers have come up with beautiful collab- orative change tracking systems (like git) that let you easily make changes to a huge base of code, track who changed what, submit and resolve conflicting versions of updates, etc. But when we pass a new bill that replaces or modifies an old law, it is always some 300 page document with pages of "Subsection F Paragraph 3 will be modified to read 'XYZ' Why not put the laws into a git repository and make it easy for bills to just modify the existing history to say what you want it to say? And why not have the transparency to see exactly what changes and WHO implemented that change? Want to slip some pork for your district into an unrelated bill? Well, that edit is going to have your name on it. Of course it will never happen. Reply 928 J imtn 1h Who the heck wrote this ridiculous bill? git blame Ah, I did. 217

Ah, the classic cloud provider panic attack. Three identical red buttons labeled "Azure DevOps," "AWS DevOps," and "GCP DevOps" with a sweating person having an existential crisis below. It's like being asked which kidney you'd prefer to donate. The truth? Your resume needs all three, your sanity can handle none, and your company will probably switch platforms right after you become certified in one. The real punchline is that six months after mastering your chosen platform, management will announce they're "pivoting to a multi-cloud strategy" anyway. Just close your eyes and press one—the anxiety is the only constant.