Comment by Karrot_Kream
4 years ago
This would be a nice thesis. Unfortunately we have software like memcached, redis, nginx, Envoy, Kafka, Zookeeper, and more that come straight from professional programmers which makes this thesis more complicated than this post makes it sound. Perhaps Occam's Razor should apply here.
That software from a pool of millions of SWE across the world. And importantly this software created outside of corporate structures! I think these exceptions prove the rule.
Most SWE are working for companies that don’t make money reinventing architecture. Leading a bunch of people to use existing tools to sell something to customers is probably where most of the value comes from in SME world and probably most of the big company world too.
Everywhere I have worked the very experienced people are probably doing the “the same year repeated many times” rather than a pyramid of experience taking on more complex engineering challenges.
There is a lot of money in glue code.
"Everywhere I have worked the very experienced people are probably doing the “the same year repeated many times”
Yeah...