Modern Software Engineering

modern software engineering The entire thing is stitched together by spreadsheets that are parsed by Python, dropped into S3, parsed by Lambdas into more S3, the S3 files are picked up by MongoDB, then MongoDB records are passed by another Lambda into S3, the S3 files are pulled into Snowflake via Snowpipe, the new Snowflake data is pivoted by a Javascript stored procedure into a relational format... and that's how you edit someone's database access. That whole process is to upload like a 2KB CSV to a database that has people's database roles in it.

A humorous screenshot describes an absurdly convoluted software engineering pipeline involving spreadsheets, Python, S3, Lambdas, MongoDB, Snowflake, Snowpipe, and JavaScript just to edit database access. The punchline is that a tiny CSV upload somehow requires an enormous chain of fragile systems and transformations, mocking overengineered enterprise infrastructure. It is used as a reaction to unnecessarily complex data workflows and bureaucratic engineering processes.

• @gentoomemes / 18811 2025-10-04