Intro
From late 2018 until 2023 I worked at various levels as an engineer at a software startup that had it's own hand-rolled Infrastructure as Code solution, and it's own hand-rolled dependency injection solution. As I was the person who hand-rolled it I feel some responsibility for the pain and silliness that the many people who worked there during that time had to experience. Now about 6 months removed from that job there is a nostalgia about those tools and what they were able to do...