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> What they don’t understand is that after 10 or 20 years of this drama you start to realize how much of this new shit is a repetition of the shit the “old shit” replaced

That happens, sure, but all too often these same greybeards will fail to recognize when there is a truly novel thing. So do give new tech an honest chance before writing it off as reinventing the wheel.



It’s not about reinventing the wheel, it’s about whether it’s going to solve the problem. Most of what was abandoned before gets abandoned again.


Yes like every fad trying to replace SQL & relational DBs.

Turns out they work pretty good.

Don't bet your application stack on the latest flavor of this cyclical fad.


Hyperscaler computer racks are reinvented supercomputers, and Cloud Software is quite frequently recreating features available on them in the 90's. Change My Mind.




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