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I really enjoy programming, and i don't mind all of the planning, mentorship, and working with stakeholders to formulate solutions. But for the past few weeks 90% of the work I've been doing had been around deployment, migrating services to new servers, and fucking with azure resources. I haven't written a line of code for 3+ weeks. That has been draining.
Couple that with picking up work items that are poorly written with way to little information on what needs doing and it's also frustrating as hell.
At my company, we have dozens, probably over one hundred different repos that we maintain, and no less than 30 actively worked on projects. It's bitter sweet in that I get a good mix of work to break up the monotony of working on the same project, but at the cost of not being able to master any of them. I've only been in my role for 6-8 months coming from a non programming background, and it's been tough to learn and keep up with the pace required. Being full stack is nice but shitty at the same time.
Does your current stretch have a foreseeable end? Or do you think the very little programming will continue?
It's just the way work has played out for us right now. A couple servers are being decommed at the end of the month, so it's priority. I work on team of about 14 people and we use Azure dev ops for work items and sprint planning. The way we do it is once you finish a task, you grab the next available item in sprint rather than cherry picking. I've just been a bit unlucky in my timing. We do have some projects in the works that will be hitting us soon, and some new implementations, so I yea, it's likely I'll be writing actual code again in the near future.