Re:Hype Driven Development
by coldtea on Saturday April 22, 2017 @10:30AM
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>I don't think microservices, react, functional programming or no sql are examples of 'hype'; I think those are good engineering decisions (depending on the problem domain).
The two are orthogonal. Hype is a marketing force which can be used to tout good and bad stuff.
Teams can just as well adopt a good product if its hyped. That doesn't mean their adoption process was based on a "good engineering decision". Just that they lucked onto making one.
That said, I find "microservices" or "no sql" as more hype than substance in the domains that most teams apply them. They just reimplement (poorly) a ton of stuff that a monolith or sql would already have, and don't really need either for their use case.
The two are orthogonal. Hype is a marketing force which can be used to tout good and bad stuff.
Teams can just as well adopt a good product if its hyped. That doesn't mean their adoption process was based on a "good engineering decision". Just that they lucked onto making one.
That said, I find "microservices" or "no sql" as more hype than substance in the domains that most teams apply them. They just reimplement (poorly) a ton of stuff that a monolith or sql would already have, and don't really need either for their use case.