Software-Development

We’ve all been there. It’s 2 AM, your deadline is in 6 hours, and you need to parse a JSON response in a way that’s just slightly off from what Google tells you is standard. You open Stack Overflow in a new tab, find exactly what you need, copy-paste it into your codebase, and move on with your life. Fifteen developers in your company do the same thing every week. Then, five years later, during due diligence for a funding round—or worse, a lawsuit threat—someone discovers that the code snippet you borrowed from Stack Overflow is actually derivative work from a GPL-licensed project....

Remember when your car had a 5-speed transmission and a carburetor you could actually tinker with? Yeah, neither do I—but engineers loved them. Why? Because that “inefficient” design taught them how cars actually worked. Today’s software industry is obsessed with maximum efficiency, and I’m here to argue we’re optimizing away some of the most valuable parts of our craft. The Efficiency Cult We’ve Built Let’s be honest: the software development world is currently gripped by what I call “efficiency mania....

Помните, когда у вашей машины была 5-ступенчатая трансмиссия и карбюратор, с которым можно было повозиться? Да, я тоже не помню — но инженерам они нравились. Почему? Потому что этот «неэффективный» дизайн учил их тому, как на самом деле работают автомобили. Сегодняшняя индустрия программного обеспечения одержима максимальной эффективностью, и я здесь, чтобы утверждать, что мы оптимизируем некоторые из самых ценных аспектов нашего ремесла. Культ эффективности, который мы создали Давайте будем честными: мир разработки программного обеспечения в настоящее время охвачен тем, что я называю «манией эффективности»....

Every week, without fail, a new framework lands on Hacker News. Every month, a “revolutionary” architecture pattern emerges from a tech conference. Every quarter, some startup with $50M in funding tells us that the way we’ve been building software for the last decade is now categorically wrong. And you know what? They’re probably not wrong. They’re just… incomplete. Here’s the thing nobody wants to hear at tech conferences: the best tool for your problem might be the one you already know how to use....

So you’ve decided to build your own file system. Congratulations on choosing the software equivalent of constructing your house foundation while simultaneously building the walls, roof, and plumbing. I admire your ambition, truly. But let me save you six months of debugging and at least three mental breakdowns by explaining why this is almost certainly a mistake. The Seductive Trap of “We Can Do This Ourselves” Here’s the thing about file systems—they’re deceptively simple in theory....