Back in the days, people took the time it was necessary to write the software. And managers trusted the engineers to say when it’s ready or not.
Nowadays, the software world is managers going “yes we know the database’s gonna blow up over the weekend without the query optimizations, but we want to build this new feature before the end of the week. We can deal with the database when it blows up over the weekend, that’s why you guys are on-call.”
I did not make this up, I’ve actually heard this. This is why modern software is so fucked up, not because we can’t handle the complexity, because reliability and quality just isn’t prioritized at all anymore. Gotta dish out new features every day and you’re not allowed to work on fixing known critical bugs.
That’s really what’s going on.
Back in the days, people took the time it was necessary to write the software. And managers trusted the engineers to say when it’s ready or not.
Nowadays, the software world is managers going “yes we know the database’s gonna blow up over the weekend without the query optimizations, but we want to build this new feature before the end of the week. We can deal with the database when it blows up over the weekend, that’s why you guys are on-call.”
I did not make this up, I’ve actually heard this. This is why modern software is so fucked up, not because we can’t handle the complexity, because reliability and quality just isn’t prioritized at all anymore. Gotta dish out new features every day and you’re not allowed to work on fixing known critical bugs.
This hits close to home.