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It's not necessarily devs pushing for hyped technologies that don't fit the business problem. Half- or nontechnical managers often follow tech hypes as well an
by brazzy 9y ago
It's not necessarily devs pushing for hyped technologies that don't fit the business problem.
Half- or nontechnical managers often follow tech hypes as well and may push for the project to use "Big Data technology" simply because it makes them feel more important to lead a project that is part of the hyped topic.
- mrec 9y agoYes, I've seen this syndrome coming from (pretty senior) management far more than from developers. My suspicion is that it's more about padding the CV than just "feel[ing] more important" - they may well be behaving rationally at the individual scale, they're just responding to perverse incentives in the job marketplace.
- kareemm 9y agoAgreed! This falls into the "weak product management" category imho. FWIW I think most devs could learn how to push back on poor decisions like this made by non-technical managers as it really shouldn't be the manager's responsibility to dictate technology choices for a solution. It should be their responsibility to push the dev team to make tradeoffs in order to achieve a business result. Devs who are good at understanding the business objectives and pushing the non-technical team to make better decisions are both wonderful to work with and command higher salaries / fees.