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> Remember how everybody got excited about NoSQL? It's one of the downsides of being a contractor; your new client thinks NoSQL is the next best thing and if y
by BinaryIdiot 9y ago
> Remember how everybody got excited about NoSQL?
It's one of the downsides of being a contractor; your new client thinks NoSQL is the next best thing and if you want the job you have to use NoSQL, even if it makes zero sense in your use case (and yes you always argue with the client it just rarely works if they have the money to throw at the issue).
When the NoSQL craze hit I stopped using RDMS entirely for about 6 years. It was never my choice and only in one case do I think it was the correct choice.
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y agoFor me the worst was the XML craze. Suddenly everyone was talking about XML as if it was a game changer. One major database vendor announced an XML database. New standards like XSLT and Xpath proliferated. XHTML seemed to be on the way to replace HTML... When you look at it now, each of these technologies has some use, and the "XML revolution" contributed to some useful developments, but the exaggerations on the way were egregious. What is interesting is that many people were aware of the shortcomings of the new technology from the very beginning. For example, many noted that XML is too verbose for both machine-to-machine communication as well as editing by humans. It's interesting to note the same phenomena in each technology cycle.