[theLiminator]

I think that's a very extreme take in the software industry. Sure you don't need to pick up every new trend, but a ridiculous amount has changed in the past 10 years. If you only consider stuff from 2016, you're missing some incredible advancements.

You'd be missing stuff like: - Containers - Major advancement in mainstream programming languages - IaC

There's countless more things that enable shipping of software of a completely different nature than was available back then.

Maybe these things don't apply to what you work on, but the software industry has completely changed over time and has enabled developers to build software on a different scale than ever previously possible.

I agree there's too much snake-oil and hype being sold, but that's a crazy take.

[jdub]

Weeeeelllll...

Post-CFEngine (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform) and cloud platform (CloudFormation) infrastructure-as-code is over a decade old.

Docker's popularisation of containers is just over a decade old.

But containers (and especially container orchestration, i.e. Kubernetes) are still entirely ignorable in production. :-D

[dgxyz]

It's not that I refuse to acknowledge they exist, just don't give a fuck. I mean do I really care about Kubernetes CNI? Nope it doesn't actually make any money - it's an operational cost at the end of the day. And the whole idea of Kubernetes and containers leads to a huge operational staffing cost just to keep enough context in house to be able to keep the plates spinning.

And it's not at all crazy. We sold ourselves into over-complex architecture and knowledge cults. I've watched more products burn in the 4-5 year window due to bad tech decisions and vendors losing interest than I care to remember. Ride the hype up the ramp and hope it'll stick is not something you should be building a business on.

On that ingress-nginx. Yeah abandoned. Fucked everyone over. Here we go again...