As I recently observed, Corporate IT tends to be afraid of code: code is where all the pesky bugs come from, which have to be fixed by quirky, expensive, and unreliable developers or external consultants. This attitude plays to the favor of vendors who peddle products that "only" require configuration, as opposed to coding. Sadly, most configuration is really just programming in a poorly designed, rather constrained language without decent tooling or useful documentation. Being afraid of code and being unfamiliar with the modern development lifecycle is a dangerous proposition in a world where everything is becoming software-defined.
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