> This piece of the puzzle is the one that worries me the most. What I’m worried about is that places like Hacker News, r/programming, the tech press, and conferences expose us to a number of tech-forward biases about our industry that are overenthusiastic about the promises of new technology without talking about tradeoffs.
That's because these are marketing websites, meant to show off the newest and shiniest things, with an agenda. We like them because by our nature we like new and shiny things, but their content isn't representative of real life, like at all.
> That the loudest voices get the most credibility, and, that, as a result, we are listening to complicated set-ups and overengineering systems of distributed networking and queues and serverless and microservices and machine learning platforms that our companies don’t need, and that most other developers that pick up our work can’t relate to, or can even work with.
This is also part of human nature and my experience in the tech world confirms to me that the loudest voices are usually somewhere in the top of the bell curve of correctness or usefulness. Make friends with people who are working on real products every day and stay grounded in reality by talking to them, like knives that sharpen each other. The less they want to talk about tech or share their opinions, the more likely they are to have sane, reasonable and useful ones.
That's because these are marketing websites, meant to show off the newest and shiniest things, with an agenda. We like them because by our nature we like new and shiny things, but their content isn't representative of real life, like at all.
> That the loudest voices get the most credibility, and, that, as a result, we are listening to complicated set-ups and overengineering systems of distributed networking and queues and serverless and microservices and machine learning platforms that our companies don’t need, and that most other developers that pick up our work can’t relate to, or can even work with.
This is also part of human nature and my experience in the tech world confirms to me that the loudest voices are usually somewhere in the top of the bell curve of correctness or usefulness. Make friends with people who are working on real products every day and stay grounded in reality by talking to them, like knives that sharpen each other. The less they want to talk about tech or share their opinions, the more likely they are to have sane, reasonable and useful ones.