>I managed to not get fired because through this whole thing I was talking shit about it.
I know it’s unprofessional to comment on other developers work negatively, but I do see it often in the work place and it does serve to distance an individual from the group that is failing.
It’s sad but true, and this is an example, employers say they want professionalism but they incentivize against it.
There’s 0 downsides to criticizing everyone else’s projects and systems so a lot of people do it. This is kinda exacerbated by the fact that we engineers have a reputation for being incorrect about the stability of systems we build ( there are good reasons for this, and I personally don’t think it’s possible to avoid that impression even when it’s not intended).
I wonder if this team would have done better with tools that offer better observability (metrics, logs, tracing etc.). An example of a rewrite that went well https://avc.com/2019/12/grinding/
I know it’s unprofessional to comment on other developers work negatively, but I do see it often in the work place and it does serve to distance an individual from the group that is failing.
It’s sad but true, and this is an example, employers say they want professionalism but they incentivize against it.