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Re:Hype Driven Development by staticassertion on Saturday April 22, 2017 @11:42AM (#14173033)
Right, because there isn't a litany for what could go wrong with every single technology mentioned in this article already...

Let's not pretend like there's a single technology out there that isn't constantly under fire.

If you strip out the strawman argument against each technology ("Let me tell you a story about how this technology didn't work in my imagination") you end up with one single premise - do research before adopting tech. Did you need to be told that? I think if one single person is making tech stack decisions in production and no one is going "uh can you justify this" you have far more serious issues.

Re:Hype Driven Development by cle on Saturday April 22, 2017 @08:19PM (#14175679)
No I don't need to be told that. That's my point. Most tech products make it difficult for me to do my up-front research, because they want to paint a rosy picture of their product to drive adoption. But I'm less likely to adopt it if I can't easily understand its constraints, failure scenarios, scaling bottlenecks, maintenance headaches, leaky abstractions, etc.
Re:Hype Driven Development by staticassertion on Saturday April 22, 2017 @11:22PM (#14176289)
Can you name a tech product that is hard to research in regards to its constraints or failings?