Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres by wwweston on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @02:31PM (#18718626)

For one thing, a good chunk of what happens in the industry isn't particularly well described by the term "engineering," which in my mind describes someone who is well-trained and experience-versed in relevant scientific models for the application domain and the dynamics of relevant "materials" and their interaction that can be composed into a solution. It might be the term "craft" better describes a lot of software development activity.

For another, it may be everyone is susceptible to the influence of trends. Even engineers. And the more complex the details of a subdomain of software engineering are, the bigger the tradeoff between becoming someone who can make a true engineering assessment in that niche and developing expertise elsewhere...

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Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres by ownagefool on Monday December 24, 2018 @07:24AM (#18751825)

It's also largely a fact that we're paid better for following hypes, at least in the UK. Thus a smart "engineer" who also cares about their bank balance pretty much has to use everything new to stay relevant.

Further, most of the use cases are fairly shallow, so it doesn't actually matter that much, and you'll be paid more to paper over the cracks.

We need to change the market, but it doesn't like the strong and stable engineers are getting lead roles to pay more strong and stable engineers to build boring tech, despite that actually being better for most businesses.

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