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I just got my revelation on this when I got to writing scripts to manage servers.

Since I am developer I was always starting from position where I need "reusable and flexible" script. This approach got me stranded in doing stuff like updating TLS certificates by clicking in IIS settings - because I did not want even to start if I did not have "perfect script".

At some point I went "OK I am just going to do script for this single server" - well script is reusable because it is simple and for another server I just change variables inside of the script. It saves me a lot of time already.

Lots of business line software does not need flexibility but developers tend to have need to build a framework because somehow they feel like they are not real developers.



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