Sometimes I feel like there are two worlds in IT: the one you encounter on a daily basis, and the one you read about on HN. The only thing consistently "terrible" about both of them is the often expressed lack of humility towards solutions you don't "like", or more often, actually, solutions you don't understand.
Gottfried Leibniz suffered no small amount of flak for his conclusion that the reason the world looks the way it does is because it's already "the best of all possible worlds": you may think you see an improvement, but you lack divine understanding and therefore you don't see how it would actually make things worse.
While this is in my opinion a silly idea, I think most people who work in tech could use a bit of humility influenced by this line of thought: if a solution exists today, and it has yet to be replaced, it's at least possible that it's over all the best solution, and the reason you're not seeing that is because of a lack of understanding.
Of course this is not always true, but if nothing else it would lead to more interesting discussions than those stemming from someone saying "if you're not using Kubernetes you're a moron" and another replying "learn how to sysadmin and you'll realize you don't need Kubernetes in the first place".
Gottfried Leibniz suffered no small amount of flak for his conclusion that the reason the world looks the way it does is because it's already "the best of all possible worlds": you may think you see an improvement, but you lack divine understanding and therefore you don't see how it would actually make things worse.
While this is in my opinion a silly idea, I think most people who work in tech could use a bit of humility influenced by this line of thought: if a solution exists today, and it has yet to be replaced, it's at least possible that it's over all the best solution, and the reason you're not seeing that is because of a lack of understanding.
Of course this is not always true, but if nothing else it would lead to more interesting discussions than those stemming from someone saying "if you're not using Kubernetes you're a moron" and another replying "learn how to sysadmin and you'll realize you don't need Kubernetes in the first place".