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Re:Twitter’s Kafka adoption story by fnbr on Thursday November 29, 2018 @04:33PM (#18564246)
The joke that I've heard is "performance (review) driven development".

If the way to get promoted is to launch a shiny new product, then your most senior people will be the best at finding shiny new products to launch, even if that's not the right technical decision to make.

Re:Twitter’s Kafka adoption story by Benjammer on Friday November 30, 2018 @01:41PM (#18571397)
"Oh but our senior engineers would _never_ make such a selfish choice to make themselves look better at the expense of the company, everyone here _believes_ in the mission."
Re:Twitter’s Kafka adoption story by blackaspen on Thursday November 29, 2018 @05:49PM (#18564899)
"Promobird" and "Promobird V2" (and so on).
Re:Twitter’s Kafka adoption story by yxhuvud on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:18AM (#18570134)
Closely related to CV driven development.