Taco Bell Programming

theodp writes "Think outside the box? Nah, think outside the bun. Ted Dziuba argues there's a programming lesson to be learned from observing how Taco Bell manages to pull down $1.9 billion by mixing-and-matching roughly eight ingredients: 'The more I write code and design systems, the more I understand that many times, you can achieve the desired functionality simply with clever reconfigurations of the basic Unix tool set. After all, functionality is an asset, but code is a liability. This is the opposite of a trend of nonsense called DevOps, where system administrators start writing unit tests and other things to help the developers warm up to them — Taco Bell Programming is about developers knowing enough about Ops (and Unix in general) so that they don't overthink things, and arrive at simple, scalable solutions.'"

Comments

My order

[Wingman 5]

Can I get a server logging system, hold the email notifications. Can I get extra rotating log files with that?

Re:Software is not food

[Anonymous Coward]

"Compilers are like boyfriends, you miss a period and they go crazy on you."

Re:which language is best?

[Anonymous Coward]

The DevOps thing is yet another crock of shit on par with 'managing programmers is like herding cats' and web2.0

I volunteer at a cat rescue. Herding cats is much easier than dealing with programmers.

Re:8 keywords?

[Anonymous Coward]

Noli strepere.

Per tempus mei, "zero" non habemus. Numerorum Romanorum usi eramus.

Re:which language is best?

[meyekul]

tail -n 100 /var/log/apache2/access_log | cut -f1 -d" " | sort | uniq
...
I'm honestly curious how long it will take you to do it in C, with/without the DNS lookup. Post source if you don't mind.

Not long at all...

system("tail -n 100 /var/log/apache2/access_log | cut -f1 -d' ' | sort | uniq");