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I guess most companies need to pretend that they are a cool tech company with a "challenging line of work". The sheer shortage of programmers manifests a develo

I guess most companies need to pretend that they are a cool tech company with a "challenging line of work". The sheer shortage of programmers manifests a developer-centric market where using the cutting-edge technology matters, even if the business considerations make less of a sense. Take for example, Walmart Labs move to Node.JS + React [1]. The rationale is quite obvious here. It's a step to distance from the corporate portrayal of "Walmart" and create an image of a nimble, developer-friendly team (There maybe other important reasons, but I'd assume good PR mattered a lot). Contrary to what HN may suggest, the first thing that exhilarates a developer (the early ones to say the least) isn't the business, it's the tech. [1]: https://blog.hellojs.org/walmart-labs-releases-electrode-moves-to-node-react-5cd8221e0dbd https://blog.hellojs.org/walmart-labs-releases-electrode-mov...

raverbashing 10y ago
Maybe because developers were sick of being forced to use "corporate technologies" sold at golf courses (like crap from IBM or Oracle) So when I see a job posting advertising those I know the people in charge have no clue in what they're doing and treat developers as janitors. Or as pg said: "The more of an IT flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous the company was. The safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to worry about those."
- saiya-jin 10y ago
  > ... "corporate technologies" sold at golf courses don't forget the tennis courts
- collyw 10y ago
  I am busy wrestling with Salesforce right now (the height of crapness in my opinion), but it hasn't stopped me seeing relational databases as more useful than Mongo in the majority of use cases.