The amount of horseshit that's exploded all over any simple-ass system that could fit comfortably on one real mid-range server, these days, is truly astounding. I thought I was used to churn and such in this field, but the last five or so years are really starting to strain me. The amount of junk one increasingly must know to work on these over-engineered systems—and they never have enough personnel to keep everyone from having to know & constantly work with a dozen different tools and interfaces just to get anything done, on top of what you need for the work of actually writing and working with code—is getting to be more than I can handle.

I only hope if anything good comes out of the next bubble burst it's that some of this piles-of-cash burning counterproductive insanity gets reigned in.