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Because it is an IT version of the best practice in the manufacturing industry. It has the advantages of simplicity, consistency, high performance, stability, reliability, observability, repeatability, easy combination, easy maintenance, etc.
https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you saying we're safe from exploding toilets because of regulatory capture by a few corrupt individuals? Bring on the corruption!
I feel like a toilet analogy does not work, as anybody can install a toilet
> As I write this on an early July morning, 200-plus corporations, including many retail chains, have inoperative IT because extortionists found a hole in some niche, third-party software product most of us have never heard of. As I write this, millions of cars have gotten stolen due to vulnerable lock mechanism. A thief can with simple toools just open the door, start the car and drive away. Do we sue the engineer d…
The other types of engineering the author refers to that are subject to certification involve the physical safety of other people. But still, plenty of software development roles are subject to professional liability, particularly where the work is linked to people’s physical safety. As a contractor or director of a company providing software services, I’ve been required to have professional indemnity and public liab…
"This is a rant about a non-problem." Every time I buy a 'smart' version of a product, whether its a light or coffee machine, it becomes 10x less reliable. When your coffee machine is mining bitcoins because it's software is written in javascript and someone paid the author of left pad, that funny. When half the city comes to a hault becauae the same thing happened to traffic lights..
I’ve not heard of a traffic light failure due to the control system mining Bitcoin, and any software engineer who did that or allowed it to happen would find their career over pretty quickly.
> As I write this on an early July morning, 200-plus corporations, including many retail chains, have inoperative IT because extortionists found a hole in some niche, third-party software product most of us have never heard of. As I write this, millions of cars have gotten stolen due to vulnerable lock mechanism. A thief can with simple toools just open the door, start the car and drive away. Do we sue the engineer d…
In Quebec/Canada there is this huge company called Trigone. They build all kind of big buildings here and their modus operandi was to create shell companies around Trigone. So the shell company would build the building and instantly bankrupt after. The people who bought part of the new building were stuck with all kind of problems and no way to fight back. The RBQ which is the agency in charge of making sure the rule…
> As I write this on an early July morning, 200-plus corporations, including many retail chains, have inoperative IT because extortionists found a hole in some niche, third-party software product most of us have never heard of. As I write this, millions of cars have gotten stolen due to vulnerable lock mechanism. A thief can with simple toools just open the door, start the car and drive away. Do we sue the engineer d…
I agree that the blame does not lie on the engineers that created the cars or software though. In the end it's a problem of cost, you could write better software, but it would cost you time, money and shifted focus in the education of software developers and so on. Users are not willing to pay for that cost, they are very upset when reality bites them in the rear though...
If there isn’t such an example, then perhaps software is a category of its own and thus its problems can’t be solved by legacy regulatory tooling.
The other types of engineering the author refers to that are subject to certification involve the physical safety of other people. But still, plenty of software development roles are subject to professional liability, particularly where the work is linked to people’s physical safety. As a contractor or director of a company providing software services, I’ve been required to have professional indemnity and public liab…
> It’s absurd that the same standards of liability would apply to an aviation software job vs the part time IT guy While I agree, the reality is that the part time IT guy is generally far more certified than the high paid software developer, which I find far more absurd.
Hardly. Any software developer working on systems that risk people’s safety - eg avionics, automotive systems, medical devices, traffic control systems - would be required to have advanced university qualifications. Google at least used to require all its software engineers to have masters degrees. Do they still? People I’ve know to work in software dev jobs at Microsoft and even mid-level companies like TripAdvisor and SurveyMonkey have PhDs. Other tech companies like IBM and Accenture sure would require at least bachelor degrees.
But sure, plenty of software developers have no formal qualifications or liability. And they’re not working on stuff that directly risks people’s physical safety.