I put "good" in quotes for a reason. I never said "hire the best"; that isn't a requirement for anything that was stated.
There shouldn't really be a measurable overhead of running a distributed system, at least in the context of microservices. I strongly disagree with the sentiment that a distributed system isn't "worth it" at smaller organizations. I'm part of one, and it helps keep things flexible while increasing reliability of the "overall" system(s).
But that's neither here nor there. One shoe size won't fit everyone, but OP ran down a gambit of things and seemed to have issue with each one. It is exceedingly unlikely they are doing anything eccentric enough to the point of proclaiming CI is just a bandaid on the broken concept of microservices. I will contend that the source of OP's insights are... misappointed, and by breaking down efficiencies and flexibility they're merely masking certain underlying problems.
What's more probable? An organization hired some wrong people, or a generic list of strongly supported practices over the course of two to three decades are to blame for an organization's failings? I guess that's my take on it.
There shouldn't really be a measurable overhead of running a distributed system, at least in the context of microservices. I strongly disagree with the sentiment that a distributed system isn't "worth it" at smaller organizations. I'm part of one, and it helps keep things flexible while increasing reliability of the "overall" system(s).
But that's neither here nor there. One shoe size won't fit everyone, but OP ran down a gambit of things and seemed to have issue with each one. It is exceedingly unlikely they are doing anything eccentric enough to the point of proclaiming CI is just a bandaid on the broken concept of microservices. I will contend that the source of OP's insights are... misappointed, and by breaking down efficiencies and flexibility they're merely masking certain underlying problems.
What's more probable? An organization hired some wrong people, or a generic list of strongly supported practices over the course of two to three decades are to blame for an organization's failings? I guess that's my take on it.