When the pursuit of simplicity creates complexity in container-based CI pipelines

1 · · May 24, 2022, 4:03 p.m.
Summary
In a GitLab book club, I recently read "The Laws of Simplicity," a great book on a topic that has deeply fascinated me for many years. The book contains an acronym that expresses simplicity generation approaches: SHE, which stands for "shrink, hide, embody." These three approaches for simplicity generation all share a common attribute: They are all creating illusions - not eliminations. I've seen this illusion repeat across many, many realms of pursuit for many years. Even in human language, voc...