How many companies adopted MongoDB because “it’s the future!” and are now stuck with it until insolvency or the heat-death of the universe, whichever comes first?
Be careful about making technical decisions based on bubble logic
@baldur Not my observation, but in an industry where gigs, entire products, and even companies are short-lived, the incentive will always be to use the latest shiny:
The latest shiny gets your blog, mastodon, and conference talks attention. Boring is harder to sell.
The latest shiny plus the above gets you your next gig. Boring is harder to sell.
The odds of winding up that one old person in the corner who knows what used to be the latest shiny are extremely low, even if you try.
@baldur We repeat Dr. Alan Kay’s observation that “programming is a pop culture,” but all-too-often we focus on the culture and forget that just like pop music and pop art and pop literature, there is an industry wrapped around the pop culture that amplifies the “pop” nature of tech.
@raganwald This is a really good point. And if you want have a career it's really hard to avoid being a part of that industrial amplification of the pop culture, at least in some way.
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