It’s saddening to me how many times I’ve actually come across this in production.

Just because the code works doesn’t mean it should ship.

I’m not going to apologize or feel bad because of your weak blood. I’ll wear shorts until it’s actually cold.

I’m not going to act like slang back in the day was top-notch all the time. But the “slang” from the last 5 years has been just extra lazy. It really feels like a sad, sad attempt to get like a “viral” word to trend; it seems really social media forced and not natural like it used to be. There’s a reason slang stuck around so long (and some survived) compared to this. To what end, I’m not sure, but idiots still post “first” on youtube videos… so, idk, a race to the bottom, I guess. That is to say, this “slang” is gammy.

Honestly, fuck Ansible.

It’s the dialup of automation tools. It was probably amazing 10 years ago.

It’s YAML is awful, it scales terribly, it’s so fucking slow at literally everything, it gives people who have no clue what they’re doing a false sense of confidence.

The number of times I’ve seen app teams waste the time of support groups and engineers because something went wrong and they didn’t have the knowledge to know why and need to waste so many man hours having other people solve it for them. I (the engineer) was added to a chat that had 15 people in it because they, after running ansible, saw errors in their server… So clearly there was a problem with the server… At no point did they question there Ansible job.

Of the various tools I’ve used, I prefer Salt. The YAML is slightly less ass and it’s so much faster while also seeming to scaling better too. It by no means is perfect.