XML is the future
I&#x27;ve been working in the tech industry in the US for about 5 years. Ever since I knew myself I&#x27;ve been coding. From middle school to high school, given any problem, like Sudoku, or keeping up daily chores, my solution was Programming! Programming wasy homebase. Then I studied it in uni, thought I was kinda good at it, and loved it.<p>But when I started working in the industry, I realized that it&#x27;s absolutely exhausting. Hype after hype, fad after fad, modern after modern, refactor after refactor. I have a workflow, I know how to build apps. Then one day director of Ops comes and completely and utterly changes the workflow. Ok fine, I&#x27;m young, will learn this. Month passes, it is now Terraform. Ok fine I&#x27;m young, will learn this. Now we&#x27;re serverless. Ok fine, will learn. Now everything is container. Ok. Now everything microservice. K. Now turns out lambdas aren&#x27;t good, so everything is ECS. OK will rewrite everything...<p>Look I&#x27;m not even complaining. But it feels like I&#x27;m stuck in a Franz Kafka novel. We just keep changing and changing the same things again and again because that&#x27;s the new way to do. Big distraction. Destroys your workflow. Forget about all the util scripts you wrote last 6 months being useless.<p>I don&#x27;t even know how I would do it. Maybe I would do this the same way if I had any power. But that doesn&#x27;t change the fact that it&#x27;s a bit ridiculous. Fun but tiring. Entertaining but exhausting. Cute but frustrating.