A very interesting answer. I could very much identify with what your saying.
> Designs don't ever match up with real world requirements (they match up very well to stated requirements).
Perhaps the most important discipline in computing isn't anything related to technology, but is instead "requirements analysis". What does your company generally use to communicate and record requirements - use cases/stories/other? Are we just still struggling with the same old problem - data can be modeled easily, but not complex behavior?
> More product managers to collect better requirements from people who don't know their own requirements. And of course, none of them ever see any need whatsoever to understand the problem they're solving.
Do you think these people don't know their own requirements because: aspects of the complex underlying real-world problem or system are difficult or unknown to them; they are trying to describe something new in their imagination; the mechanism for writing the requirement is vague meaning it inevitably needs to be further decomposed; something else?
> The scary part is, rewriting database engines starting from a basic key-value store ("nosql") does in fact seem to be the norm now, even on hacker news. App-specific query languages are everywhere. People are I'm not kidding proud of doing this. Nobody seems to realize that this just isn't worth it.
How do proponents of these "custom" database engines justify them if they are not really needed? Is management clueless?
> Designs don't ever match up with real world requirements (they match up very well to stated requirements).
Perhaps the most important discipline in computing isn't anything related to technology, but is instead "requirements analysis". What does your company generally use to communicate and record requirements - use cases/stories/other? Are we just still struggling with the same old problem - data can be modeled easily, but not complex behavior?
> More product managers to collect better requirements from people who don't know their own requirements. And of course, none of them ever see any need whatsoever to understand the problem they're solving.
Do you think these people don't know their own requirements because: aspects of the complex underlying real-world problem or system are difficult or unknown to them; they are trying to describe something new in their imagination; the mechanism for writing the requirement is vague meaning it inevitably needs to be further decomposed; something else?
> The scary part is, rewriting database engines starting from a basic key-value store ("nosql") does in fact seem to be the norm now, even on hacker news. App-specific query languages are everywhere. People are I'm not kidding proud of doing this. Nobody seems to realize that this just isn't worth it.
How do proponents of these "custom" database engines justify them if they are not really needed? Is management clueless?