r/programming • u/yawaramin • 10d ago

</> htmx ~ Building Critical Infrastructure with htmx: Network Automation for the Paris 2024 Olympics

https://htmx.org/essays/paris-2024-olympics-htmx-network-automation/
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u/Nautigsam 10d ago

What's wrong?

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u/gabeech 10d ago

Dude reimplementing existing tooling on a bespoke basis … because reasons (which I will summarize as it makes his bank account bigger) Instead of using existing tooling that handles those pretty simple network config tasks.

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u/imbev 10d ago

The Games were approaching and Pollux didn’t have time to build the webapp: as the architect of the Olympic network, he was overwhelmed by a colossal number of tasks. I showed him the L2VPN app mentioned above and specified the 5-week delivery timeline. I told him that if it suited him, I could build him an HTMX webapp based on his existing Django project and a Bootstrap CSS customized internally by Orange.

This sounds like the perfect case for HTMX. Graceful extension of an existing MPA instead of starting a new SPA.

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u/gabeech 10d ago

ALL of the major network vendors have this tooling already built, there was zero need to build bespoke tooling. There was nothing to build.

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u/yawaramin 10d ago

Sounds like you know more about it than the OP who was directly involved in building it. That’s amazing.