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We’ve reached a strange point in the evolution of software engineering. We’ve become so enamoured with the 'how' that we’ve completely forgotten about the 'why'. In my ten years in DevOps, specifically within the rather rigid confines of London fintech, I’ve seen a shift from 'making it work' to 'making it pure'. And by pure, I mean following every single trend that comes out of a Silicon Valley tech giant’s engineering blog.
Take Kubernetes, for example. It is a masterpiece of engineering. It’
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