Working on some Modern Infrastructure. It's taken me cumulative days to get a development environment going with all the moving parts in it. I'm left feeling exhausted and ashamed

It's like there's no fallback. So much configuration, so many credentials, so many components. The effort it's taken to test changes to one API endpoint is incredible

I've made this harder by trying to run things in an environment i control. Finding out what's needed by leaving it out. It turns out you need all of it