> won’t let you use Postgres instead of MariaDB or Gitlab instead of Bitbucket, remember my experience. It’s because no matter how smart you folks are as individuals, in the aggregate you are like toddlers
I actively resist the notion that 'everyone but me is stupid' and propose a more realipolitik explanation: it's because power and budget. in manager heads, if you pick solution A I pick solution B, so that higher ups don't see the same line twice in services costs and get the idea they can obtain savings by merging the two functions, making one of us redundant.
yep yep didn't expect anything different from a techie community.
I actively resist the notion that 'everyone but me is stupid' and propose a more realipolitik explanation: it's because power and budget. in manager heads, if you pick solution A I pick solution B, so that higher ups don't see the same line twice in services costs and get the idea they can obtain savings by merging the two functions, making one of us redundant.
yep yep didn't expect anything different from a techie community.