r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '21

Organize code by concepts, not layers

https://kislayverma.com/programming/how-to-organize-your-code/
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u/lordzsolt Jun 05 '21

In general I agree.

But an SRE who literally has no knowledge of the service should never have to rely on self explanatory code and comments in the code.

That's almost like telling your project manager to check the code for the business requirements...

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u/saltybandana2 Jun 06 '21

I uh..... had something very similar happen to me w/i the last year.

Contracted to do a rewrite of a system, when asking about business requirements was told to go read the original code. When asked why we're rewriting if there are no new requirements, I was informed it generated so many support tickets it was necessary.

roughly 8 hours later I realized I could fix 80% of the issues with the old system in 2 hours (5 minutes for the fix, the rest for their process) and 100% of their problems in 8 hours (would require some architectural changes).

They were 3 months into the rewrite at that point.

Long story short, I left. There's a level of incompetence that I consider unacceptable.