One of the projects I currently work on, the configuration system/model/table is a monster.. I wish it was just strings. It basically contains boolean flags, strings, numbers etc but the most insidious one is, it can contain groups of related configs - meaning people started dumping stuff into that should be a normal table (ex, ShippingType:, Road, Rail, Air), so we get no foreign key constraints for reference data. This caused them to implement soft-deletes for it, so now you have some config values that float around forever because they were referenced somewhere (aka pseudo-foreignkey). It's so utterly dumb I want delete the whole thing but everyone thinks it works great (non-tech people).
I'm a developer, not a system-admin, but this is too much. Doesn't help that 5 different people has added 'features' to it over the years. The same can be accomplished with something waaaay simpler/cleaner. We also keep having config-related issues where people blame the system/servers/devops etc... every single time it is due to misconfig the project, so the system admins cannot do anything about it anyways (meaning we keep wasting their time, thinking the problem was with the servers). Let me pause here, need to take a blood pressure pill.
One of the projects I currently work on, the configuration system/model/table is a monster.. I wish it was just strings. It basically contains boolean flags, strings, numbers etc but the most insidious one is, it can contain groups of related configs - meaning people started dumping stuff into that should be a normal table (ex, ShippingType:, Road, Rail, Air), so we get no foreign key constraints for reference data. This caused them to implement soft-deletes for it, so now you have some config values that float around forever because they were referenced somewhere (aka pseudo-foreignkey). It's so utterly dumb I want delete the whole thing but everyone thinks it works great (non-tech people). I'm a developer, not a system-admin, but this is too much. Doesn't help that 5 different people has added 'features' to it over the years. The same can be accomplished with something waaaay simpler/cleaner. We also keep having config-related issues where people blame the system/servers/devops etc... every single time it is due to misconfig the project, so the system admins cannot do anything about it anyways (meaning we keep wasting their time, thinking the problem was with the servers). Let me pause here, need to take a blood pressure pill.