As others have stated here, I think there’s this constant push for features and not enough investment in improving reliability, observability, scalability. Of course, there is a lot of context required to make actual conclusions.
At many large companies, there is an incentive to create systems that are as complicated as possible. A side effect of that is gaps in what’s actually observable. This manifests itself in shitty user experiences with partially loading pages and widgets or widgets that take multiple times longer to load than other parts of the page.
All this is a direct result of large company barriers in communication, crossing between stacks with no single vertical observability solution. At medium sized companies (<9000), it begins to fall apart. A single user request has dozens of internal hops to arrive at the final API and product managers wonder why a response takes several seconds.
As others have stated here, I think there’s this constant push for features and not enough investment in improving reliability, observability, scalability. Of course, there is a lot of context required to make actual conclusions.
At many large companies, there is an incentive to create systems that are as complicated as possible. A side effect of that is gaps in what’s actually observable. This manifests itself in shitty user experiences with partially loading pages and widgets or widgets that take multiple times longer to load than other parts of the page.
All this is a direct result of large company barriers in communication, crossing between stacks with no single vertical observability solution. At medium sized companies (<9000), it begins to fall apart. A single user request has dozens of internal hops to arrive at the final API and product managers wonder why a response takes several seconds.