Absolute Fools: The DevOps Complexity Circus

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Absolute Fools: The DevOps Complexity Circus

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The eternal battle between old-school sysadmins and modern DevOps continues! This is basically every grizzled Unix veteran watching their company adopt Kubernetes to run a simple CRUD app that could've been handled by a single server from 2003.

The meme brilliantly captures the frustration of seeing simple problems solved with absurdly complex solutions. Unix sockets? Nah, let's orchestrate 47 containers across 3 availability zones instead! Because nothing says "enterprise ready" like needing three diagrams that look like circuit boards just to deploy a hello world app.

And the cherry on top? After all that complexity, the only actual requirement was "no downtime please" - which ironically would've been easier to achieve with the simpler setup. The real DevOps was inside us all along!

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