95% of you reading this and thinking oh, that's neat let me use this for the company are going to waste time and resources. Why? Because the kind of complexity the article tries to address is not reached by the vast majority of the deployments out there. Typically the 'superstructure' is larger than the thing it supports. As soon as that's the case and there is not credible path to a (near!) future where you will need that superstructure you are better off with the simplest configuration that you can get away with. It will be more robust, easier to modify and easier to troubleshoot than any of these abstraction layers.
Question one for anything that you aim at production should be: "Do I really need this?" and only if the answer is a very clear yes and you're not just trying to implement $COOLTECH because you are distracted by its shininess or because 'Google does it too' then you should go ahead and implement.
My #1 technique for improving installations is to rip out unnecessary superstructure which is obscuring why things are going wrong, and more often than not is actually part of the problem. Works every time.
The same goes by the way for modeling your development process on whatever Spotify does with your 6 people development team, and in fact for any other piece of tech that you bring on board. Each of those pieces has a cost of implementation, a cost of maintenance and a cost of cognitive overhead associated with it. The best shops out there use the least number of technologies they can get away with.
Question one for anything that you aim at production should be: "Do I really need this?" and only if the answer is a very clear yes and you're not just trying to implement $COOLTECH because you are distracted by its shininess or because 'Google does it too' then you should go ahead and implement.
My #1 technique for improving installations is to rip out unnecessary superstructure which is obscuring why things are going wrong, and more often than not is actually part of the problem. Works every time.
The same goes by the way for modeling your development process on whatever Spotify does with your 6 people development team, and in fact for any other piece of tech that you bring on board. Each of those pieces has a cost of implementation, a cost of maintenance and a cost of cognitive overhead associated with it. The best shops out there use the least number of technologies they can get away with.