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Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on by Jcampuzano2 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @10:30PM (#25888880)
This. I'm a consultant and 90% of the time the technology has already been decided by our fancy management team who haven't written code in 10+ years before a line of code has been written. But they know the buzzwords like the rest of us and know they sell.

Problem is they no longer have to implement, so they are even more inclined to sell the most complicated tech stack that have marketing pages claiming they scale to basically infinity.

Re:Software engineering topics I changed my mind on by alexb7c4 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:40PM (#25896946)
In my company we store financial data for hundreds of thousands of clients in sql db. It's decade okd system and we have hundreds of tables, stored procedures (some touching dozen+ tables) and rely on transactions.

It took me weeks to convince my managers not to migrate to new hot nosql solution because "it's in cloud, it's scalable and it also supports sql queries".