Devs, like Firefighters, live and die by their tools. Well, not literally. Unlike firefighters, when we made mistakes in using our tools, the spectrum of effect is rather broad. Ranging from mild inconvenience to mistakenly dropping prod db.
Most of the time, we only focus on how our tools help our work. Disregarding the amount of complexity hidden inside the tool itself. Those complexities often arise from needs to cover multiple possible workloads. With only small subset of those features is directly usable for our use case.
While this may be enough for day-to-day work, there are times when we fall into “add another tool” trap. Mostly because we need to improve our experience with existing tools, or because we think that our current tools did not cover our use case. Despite the fact that our current tool can actually handle the task just fine.
This is either due to our lack of understanding of the tool. Or simply due to lack of desire to learn said tool in-depth. While the later factor is somewhat difficult to deal with, the former can be “fixed” by doing some exploratory exercises and a lot of reading. Yes, it boils down to good-old RTFM. What a surprise!
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