terra tauri (she/her) on Nostr: choosing the right level of abstraction for the deployment of software configuration ...

choosing the right level of abstraction for the deployment of software configuration at scale is generally not adequately considered and the ramifications of over-generalization of configuration are sweeping and incredibly hard to quantify

make something too concrete and you're writing scripts to update values that should have been abstracted

make something too abstract and you're mired in complexity any time you want to change anything