Ask HN: What’s your current hot take in software engineering?

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Post by jreed91 » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 5:34 PM UTC

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Post by simantel » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 5:38 PM UTC

Most single-page apps shouldn't be single-page apps. Start with server-rendered HTML and forms. Maybe sprinkle in some jQuery or Alpine or HTMX if you really need to.

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Post by josephcsible » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 5:53 PM UTC

The benefits of Kubernetes aren't worth its immense complexity in most organizations. If you want to put things in containers, just use Docker Swarm.

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Post by tedmiston » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 6:18 PM UTC

josephcsible wrote: post #3

The benefits of Kubernetes aren't worth its immense complexity in most organizations. If you want to put things in containers, just use Docker Swarm.

I work in DevOps and would argue this view is very reasonable and commonplace enough now that I wouldn't even consider it a hot take (and I also think it's correct). [Besides perhaps the Docker Swarm recommendation part specifically vs a managed service.]

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Post by tedmiston » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 6:19 PM UTC

Start with a monolith, not microservices.

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Post by tedmiston » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 6:21 PM UTC

The frontend "stack" has become unnecessarily complicated in the last ~5 years.

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Post by genmud » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 6:58 PM UTC

I don't trust any software involved in safety critical applications that can be updated after manufacture.

To clarify, I find that engineers rely too heavily to let their users find bugs in the field and most engineers tend to think "oh, I'm sure it isn't a big deal, and if it is we can just update the firmware/software".

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Post by moneywoes » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

Offshoring is a real threat to software development and salaries are going to drop in numbers reminiscent of 2001

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Post by zaphar » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 7:21 PM UTC

Most places build their software using incredibly subpar tooling. This will not change anytime soon.

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Post by labarilem » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 7:43 PM UTC

tedmiston wrote: post #6

The frontend "stack" has become unnecessarily complicated in the last ~5 years.

Sometimes I've had the impression that new FE frameworks (or libraries) arise to solve the complexity problem to then become a big complexity problem themselves.