It's not about hype, it's about understanding how stuff works. True, you often see people jump into a new technology without understanding the tradeoffs and th

It's not about hype, it's about understanding how stuff works. True, you often see people jump into a new technology without understanding the tradeoffs and the implications. However, a lot of people don't have a deep understanding of the non-hype systems either. Seems to me everybody expects SQL dbs to guarantee serializable isolation every time and everywhere, for example.