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Oh yeah, I don't think it's bad research going into this. I mean I've been writing software professionally for almost 20 years now and I am super excited about

Oh yeah, I don't think it's bad research going into this. I mean I've been writing software professionally for almost 20 years now and I am super excited about (for example) containerization and other trendy areas. I think it's great that people are pushing the boundaries of SOAs, and I think microservice is a good term describing how the boundaries are being pushed. We will all benefit from the improved tooling and experience gained. My only complaint is this ostrich mentality of declaring ubiquity and ignoring the downsides and unsuitable cases. I suppose drinking the koolaid might be necessary to really buy in and push the paradigm forward, but sometimes it feels like willful ignorance.

sp527 10y ago
I agree completely. I may simply have had the luxury of so far working in environments wherein software fads aren't hailed as Swiss-Army panaceas. Here's to hoping my track record doesn't ever trend Dilbertesque :)
- dasil003 10y ago
  Me too. At this point in my career I've worked very closely with more than 100 programmers for long periods of time, and only one of them would I classify as being overly interested in fads. To the contrary, I give a ton of credit to the vast majority of programmers as always being pragmatic about the problem at hand. I think the problem lies more in the PR, advocacy and conference circuits where there's an incentive and agenda to present things as silver bullets. It mirrors a greater problem in public discourse that everything has become so polarized that nuanced debate is drowned out by noisy, confident blowhards.
  - sp527 10y ago
    "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Russell) Back when I was still an employee, I strove to take a more intermediate tact that let me be more vocal about technical direction. What's surprising is how willingly people with authority will listen to what you have to say, once they realize you know what you're doing. I've also been fortunate to have had roles that enabled that in the first place. And now I'm trying my hand at entrepreneurship, which feels practically utopian :)

sp527 10y ago

I agree completely. I may simply have had the luxury of so far working in environments wherein software fads aren't hailed as Swiss-Army panaceas. Here's to hoping my track record doesn't ever trend Dilbertesque :)

dasil003 10y ago
Me too. At this point in my career I've worked very closely with more than 100 programmers for long periods of time, and only one of them would I classify as being overly interested in fads. To the contrary, I give a ton of credit to the vast majority of programmers as always being pragmatic about the problem at hand. I think the problem lies more in the PR, advocacy and conference circuits where there's an incentive and agenda to present things as silver bullets. It mirrors a greater problem in public discourse that everything has become so polarized that nuanced debate is drowned out by noisy, confident blowhards.
- sp527 10y ago
  "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Russell) Back when I was still an employee, I strove to take a more intermediate tact that let me be more vocal about technical direction. What's surprising is how willingly people with authority will listen to what you have to say, once they realize you know what you're doing. I've also been fortunate to have had roles that enabled that in the first place. And now I'm trying my hand at entrepreneurship, which feels practically utopian :)