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Another way to signal others that you, too, are an insider is by calling a current trend a hype.

• ryanmaynard 10y ago
  I agree, and am guilty as charged.
• ryanmaynard 10y ago
  To make a clarification, I was not calling Docker hype, nor specifically remarking on any particular item. I use docker religiously. I even use dokku for about 30+ toy projects. My remark was to highlight that buzzwords are often used for "me-too" ankle-deep conversations/articles. Whether someone calls it Devops, or Systems Engineering, makes no difference to me. However, I favor pragmatic conversations about the topic, rather than buzzword bingo. Examples include: "MongoDB sucks.", "Everyone should use Docker", and "What? You mean you're not using Kubernetes for your CRUD app?" Basically, blanket statements that accomplish nothing more than to send social signals.
• coldtea 10y ago
  From 20+ years of experience and having seen tons of trends just die, most are just that, hype.
  • pyre 10y ago
    But calling everything that's new "hype" and pointing to the past as the only things that are "real" or "solid" is also a form of groupthink.
    • coldtea 10y ago
      Yeah, but I think it's the inverse kind of groupthink than what the industry suffers from. So it's healthy to embrace it as counter-balance to the constant hype. (Besides, whether something is "real" or "solid" I think can mostly be answered in hindsight -- when it's mature enough and tested enough. In which case calling only things in the past solid is prudent).