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Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Developer Secrets That Could Sink Your Business?
snydeq writes: In today's tech world, the developer is king -- and we know it. But if you're letting us reign over your app dev strategy, you might be in for some surprises, thanks to what we aren't saying, writes an anonymous developer in a roundup of developer secrets that could sink the business. "The truth is, we developers aren't always straight with you. We have a few secrets we like to keep for ourselves. The fact that we don't tell you everything is understandable. You're the boss, after all. Do you tell your boss everything? If you're the CEO, do you loop in the board on every decision? So don't be so surprised when we do it." What possible damaging programming dirt are you keeping the lid on? Some of the points the developer mentions in his/her report include: "Your technical debt is a lot bigger than you think," "We're infatuated with our own code," and "We'd rather build than maintain." If you can think of any others not mentioned in the report, we're all ears! This may be a good time to check the "Post Anonymously" box before you submit your comment.
AKA Schedule Chicken. Though hoping the other team crashes and burns first is usually a metaphor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schedule_chicken
You most certainly will never solve the worlds problems on /. all you do is exchange new and interesting ideas with some of the other /.ers. Apart from the regular infestations of public relations trolls, marketdroids, from the major companies and politicians, it is remains pretty light (they do seem to realise even if people agree with their marketing, they will be trolled and their product denigrated when they are detected). Seriously still way better than say Reddit, now there is a popularity contest, the comments you see modded up most, 'i agree', 'great idea', 'me too', et al you get the gist, where as well thought out and written comments get modded down just because. As a forum /. is better than most and there are some that are so much worse (to pick on Reddit again, you browse a bit a your kind a whole bunch of stuff with zero comments, way more than half, they might not be doing all that well).
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
It can be for cost savings if you have highly bursty workloads. If you need N machines for your peak loads but 0.1N machines most of the time, then something like AWS and only paying for 0.1N machines except during demand spikes is a lot cheaper than hosting N machines yourself. If you have a consistent workload, hosting your own machines is probably noticeably cheaper.
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