I have the same answer for most problems in the Fediverse.
If we ever have free elections in the future, whoever the next president is should order that Donald John Trump be officially and irrevocably renamed to Orange Adolph Hitler, and all of Trump’s properties be seized, demolished, and rebuilt into affordable housing.
My first thought was wondering why The Onion chose Super Intelligence instead of the more believable American Intelligence, which keeps the AI abbreviation. I really just thought this was going to be some worse Onion knockoff website.
Too Stupid to be The Onion
Fuck, I’m surprised he didn’t rename it to Gulf of Intelligence.
The application setup to have the ability to talk to more than one region is the normal setup that you get when you follow instructions. You’re not saving time to set it up a different way. You’re simply creating technical debt for the person who has to come around and set it up in the standard way in the future. And it probably takes you longer to set up services locked into a single region since for the other way, you just have to follow instructions.
You have to set up your application to use the service, regardless, so I would say that you just have to follow the instructions.
I am not talking about fixing after a service has been set up for only one region, but about following the instructions when first setting it up.
I haven’t used it for a while, either, but it was just an option sitting there when using the AWS UI to set up RDS, IIRC.
The extra time to set up in more regions is pretty trivial, at least in my experience. It’s either an option when setting up the service, or it’s something that you need to cover in any case while documenting how to set up the service. But I suspect the devs I’m complaining don’t read basic instructions also don’t write basic instructions.
As for the monetary cost, that’s a business decision. The devs I am complaining about are not making business decisions. They’re just ignoring basic instructions.
I think pretty much every software dev has used AWS at some time, and when you set up new services, it specifically warns you to use multiple geographic areas for your services. It doesn’t say “war” or something, only that it’s good for redundancy, IIRC.
So anyway, yes, I follow instructions, but I’m always surprised that you have software people and systems admins who can’t even follow basic instructions. I don’t know what percentage of people it is, but it feels like over 50% who can’t follow even the simplest instructions.
There’s this story that Mark Hammil tells about being on the set of Star Wars and he mentions to Harrison Ford that their hair should be wet, since it was just wet in the previous scene.
And Ford says something like, “This ain’t that kind of movie, kid. If the audience is talking about our hair, something has already gone wrong.”
Companies have always pressured software teams to ship products as fast as possible.
What’s new is the part where all of the worst coders can shit out code a lot faster and pretend like they’re doing a good job. It used to take them a while to write garbage that they didn’t understand or review themselves, but now they can do it so quickly that it makes the actual good coders look like they’re taking a long time.
This is why you absolutely have to have documented coding and review standards. The idea that you’d ship any code that has never been reviewed by a human is horrifying.
The idea that you’d work 12 hour days is so stupid to start with. I’ve seen people consistently work that long and… surprise, they don’t actually work that long. They work about the same as anybody else and goof off the rest of the time. I doubt you can even just press enter for that long. People just don’t work that way.