The cloudy layers of modern-day programming

https://vickiboykis.com/2022/12/05/the-cloudy-layers-of-modern-day-programming/

It's VendorOps. You are hired to tend the vendor's stuff.

Instead of working on the core of the code and focusing on the performance of a self-contained application, developers are now forced to act as some kind of monstrous manual management layer between hundreds of various APIs, puzzling together whether Flark 2.3.5 on a T5.enormous instance will work with a Kappa function that sends data from ElephantStore in the us-polar-north-1 region to the APIFunctionFactoryTerminal in us-polar-south-2.