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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by deckard1 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:58PM (#17138743)
This applies to much of the software world. Many of the places I've worked have a bad habit of ditching perfectly fine tech in order to chase the latest thing. Part of it is driven by RDD (resume driven development) and positioning the company so they can hire the latest crop of fad chasers. You end up with a bunch of specialists that are siloed into their particular tech. You got the Docker guy. You got the Redis guy. You may even have one of those gray-haired DBAs that still talk about this "Oracle" thing all day long, and no one knows what the hell he's going on about. You got the Ruby guys, but now you guy a bunch of React or Angular guys. What to do with the Ruby guys? Can't just fire them yet. You have a dozen of 'em, and it took you years to hire them. Fine, just banish them to the backend somewhere. Give them some fidget spinners and a few pointless projects to keep them busy.
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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by monksy on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @09:00PM (#17140018)
Let's not forget when you're interviewing: The new places expect the latest technologies. Don't have time to learn spark, flink, kafka streams, and repeat scala spec whilst having intimate knowledge of all of the REST libraries? BAD DEVELOPER.
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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by tomc1985 on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @08:05PM (#17139672)
Hey now, Ruby ain't dead. I am one of these "Ruby" guys and, in the 48-or-so hours since my profile was activated at a new recruiting shop this week, I've gotten several potential candidate employers (some in seed stage) who want to get in touch.

The real issue is why do we silo ourselves so? It's fucking stupid. I do so much more than Ruby but conveying that to the new breed of tech people is just impossible. All they see is your biggest resume badge, and all they care about is how wide you will spread your legs for them.

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Re:Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than a Hadoop Clust... by sixdimensional on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @07:13PM (#17139333)
This is exactly right. This is real life!! And it hurts.
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