>> It was at this point that the seasoned data architects in the department began expressing their exasperation. “15 years ago, everybody was telling us ‘Get off the mainframe, get on AT&T applications, build these thick clients. Mainframes are out.’ And now thick clients are out, and everybody’s moving to APIs and microservices, which basically are very similar to the thin client that a terminal uses to interact with a mainframe.”
A.k.a. "Them as not knows their history are doomed to repeat it". But I suppose it's more the case of business imperatives than real ignorance that drive this mad race to make new stuff that works worse than the old stuff only so we can then go back to the old stuff with a different name.
Btw, that lady is my new tech hero:
“The systems that I love are really the systems that other engineers hate,” Bellotti told the audience — “the messy, archaic, half chewing gum and duct tape systems that are sort of patched together.
Consider that state/federal bureaucracies get on "trends" with a delay of 2 or 3 years minimum, and the story is probably from 2015 or thereabout - the agency was launched in 2014.
A.k.a. "Them as not knows their history are doomed to repeat it". But I suppose it's more the case of business imperatives than real ignorance that drive this mad race to make new stuff that works worse than the old stuff only so we can then go back to the old stuff with a different name.
Btw, that lady is my new tech hero:
“The systems that I love are really the systems that other engineers hate,” Bellotti told the audience — “the messy, archaic, half chewing gum and duct tape systems that are sort of patched together.
<3 <3 <3