Ageism is definitely part of it, but most people just don't seem to care to learn in general, and of course the incentives are against it.
replyThey'd rather treat the general version of Greenspun's 10th rule as a commandment, and create a new, ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of some fraction of whatever already addresses the requirement, than learn about how to use some existing tool that they don't already know.
One of my favorite examples is a company that home-rolled their own version of (a subset of) Kubernetes, ending up with a fabulously fragile monstrosity that none of the devs want to touch any more, and those who do quickly regret it.
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And Kubernetes kinda built a BEAM... kinda :) Like, if everyone would just use BEAM then it's true (lol).
replyHow does BEAM renew my certificates, configure reverse-proxies, mount networked storage volumes to whichever node a given process is running on and handle cronjobs, disk pressure and secrets?
replyI sure hope it doesn't involve a bunch of shell scripts to create a new, ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden...
Nah Kubernetes is a systems level, language agnostic (at least doesn’t force you to run Golang workloads) variant of J2EE. It’s basically modern day Websphere
replyWould you like to explain the similarity you see between them? Apart from both of them being designed for resiliency, I don't see any.
replyWhat is BEAM? I get, like, physical beams when I try looking it up.
replyErlang virtual machine
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replyI had to implement a subset of postfix because security wouldn't greenlight any MTAs (or third-party software for that matter)...
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