alt Hacker NewsLet us simplify our IT layers and stacks before it is too late.
It's time to introspect and ask those critical questions: Is it really necessary to install each one of these apps, every single one of these libraries and frameworks? How can I remove dependencies from these libs and do a little core work myself? And tell the same thing to your partners, colleagues, coworkers, etc. If you find 4-5 apps doing basically the same thing (like communication or productivity tool), see if you can consolidate them into one.
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> If you find 4-5 apps doing basically the same thing (like communication or productivity tool), see if you can consolidate them into one.
I thought this was called a monoculture and was a bad thing when e.g. Crowdstrike was the one app chosen?
Yeah and that one app will be SimpleX or I may as well be dead to everyone, if I went down that road.
> If you find 4-5 apps doing basically the same thing (like communication or productivity tool), see if you can consolidate them into one.
If I could get all of my friends to switch to one communication app, that would be great, but that's only going to happen if they can get their friends to switch, and so on. Unfortunately, doing so requires them to install additional apps for communication, and no one can get everyone they talk to to switch, so they're just going to have more people on one app than another and in the end the problem gets worse.