Seeing this happen a lot, though: deployment details creeping into a logical view of a system, clouding (pun intended) abstract reasoning about that system. Often in the earliest design/analysis phase already: “and here we’ll have a Lambda…”. A misconception of what “cloud-native” is about imo.

Re-read in this evening and what especially rings true is the observation that “the tools we train ourselves to use and in this respect programming languages […] shape our thinking habits”.

Special thanks to CentralApp’s Ashesh Ambasta for reminding me of this letter by Dijkstra to the Budget Council of the University of Texas of replacing the use of Haskell in their undergraduate programme in favour of Java. chrisdone.com/posts/dijkst...