Let us be real, these days in order to make the frontend application running in the browser there are a lot of things to take into consideration and juggle around. Like state management, CSS itself is so complex these days with layouts, effects and animations. Then there is just the normal logic of clicking a button does action Y. Coupled with actually consuming the APIs for the data in question and binding that to elements in the UI. This just touches on what the application should do, in addition to all this there are packing tools, linters, test frameworks and overall structure of the codebase to manage and learn as well. Suffice it to say the ecosystem for current modern frontend development work is quite something alright.

So you want to improve the DevOps of your company and want to help standardize everything in your organisation in order to become NoOps, what stands in your way? A war. A war with management. A brutal, long winded, casualty heavy war. There are no easy roads to victory here.

We live in troubled times. It is evident by riots and a general dystopian Zeitgeist that seems to be the current force underpinning everyone's current actions both online and offline. One of these actions is to rename terminology because of a supposed or real association with black periods of our Western history.

What to do in the face of inevitability? Well I find the best approach is always to just accept things and go with the flow as much as you can allow without deviating too much from your identity. Maybe incorporate it into your identity if you can.

So as you can tell from the title, there is no question mark. This means I know the trick in order to be as successful as Google is now. I got this idea when I was explaining something to a friend of mine who is not technical at all. The idea I was explaining is one I already dealt with earlier. This is a combined post of those thoughts I already formed.

I recently watched Escape from Pretoria. This is a great movie. It contained so many elements that I could link to software development funnily enough. The premise of the movie simply said is the escape of two real characters and one fictional one. Potential spoilers ahead.

We all know scope creep. The fact that we always build more and more features just to get new stuff in. This excruciatingly painful marketing trend of just wanting to have something that is new otherwise you are stale and stagnant.

This is in reaction to an article and a tweet.

Back in the day of mainframes and the like, there was a need for a technician that did maintenance on the computers in question. Just like you have need for mechanics that do the maintenance and the fixing of your automobiles. This grew out into a full time position called system administrator or sysadmin. So then came the containerised era and the whole DevOps movement.

This article concerns Web Components, Mozilla, Google and something GitHub created called Catalyst touching on ideas and that sometimes pride can get in the way of good things.