Distributed systems are harder to reason about, and so people have different feelings on the maintenance burden. Things get complicated around career goals and personal goals like resume driven development.
The odd gate-keeping duality is due to large super corporations dominating the public discussion, while smaller firms and developers fight back.
The truth is more nuanced though. Most places don't need or have high quality and highly available software, and can STILL make millions of dollars a year.
Banks, and critical infrastructure SHOULD have very scalable software in key places. I know for a fact many investment banks have tons of good scalable software, and tons of absolute shit software depending on where you look.
Distributed systems are harder to reason about, and so people have different feelings on the maintenance burden. Things get complicated around career goals and personal goals like resume driven development.
The odd gate-keeping duality is due to large super corporations dominating the public discussion, while smaller firms and developers fight back.
The truth is more nuanced though. Most places don't need or have high quality and highly available software, and can STILL make millions of dollars a year. Banks, and critical infrastructure SHOULD have very scalable software in key places. I know for a fact many investment banks have tons of good scalable software, and tons of absolute shit software depending on where you look.