Glad to see this on HN. My now 85 year old linguistics professor once actually used this to document a language in India. Bone char was always a crazy one!
Next time someone says "just let people enjoy things" I'm going to point them to this article and ask them if this is what they really want for this world
Nice breakdown from a personal perspective, but I see the author struggling against full cloud-native. Terraform will never be good for leading-edge AWS technologies. If you need something more advanced than Cloudformation to define your infrastructure as code, try Troposphere or CDK. I think we're past the point where Terraform can exhibit the "cloud arbitrage" value that was previously sold to us.
Working through permissions in AWS does suck, and the transparency problem in why a container fails to start in Fargate is especially frustrating.
Serverless and devops in general isn't about putting ops folks out of a job. It's about leveling the playing field on both sides of the coin so that someone who focuses on application development and someone who focuses on networking and infrastructure can collaborate easier, with more solid contracts and interfaces.
So long as the more adversarial perspective persists, we'll see a lot more digging in of the heels around kubernetes. As usual, I implore my friends in ops not to rely on the inherent bus factor that the mastery of kubernetes requires for job security.