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i know, this was a few years ago, and these types of practices were still being developed out in the greater community (lambda didnt exist yet, dockeer was still nascient etc)



I’m sympathetic in that a lot of people started learning this on the fly but that was widely recognized as bad practice even before Amazon was founded and various patterns for doing it right were widely established.

(If anyone needs me, I’m busy feeling old after remembering having this conversation with a new PHP developer in 1998)


Haha, agreed...

He was a remote worker and aparently had a poor handler on our end. I was head of ops not in dev, so i just had to deal with the fallout.




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