The VendorOps dilemma in modern-day programming
vboykis · x · 2026-08-24
Vicki Boykis reposts her 2022 article arguing that modern software development often becomes "VendorOps." Developers spend their time as a manual management layer configuring and piecing together various third-party vendor APIs instead of focusing on core code and performance, essentially tending to the vendor's stuff.
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