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I take it that you've never had to work at a big organization? When you have multiple teams in different offices, it's incredibly difficult to constantly "herd
by chomp 9y ago
I take it that you've never had to work at a big organization? When you have multiple teams in different offices, it's incredibly difficult to constantly "herd cats" and point everyone to $latest_fad. And when you DO by some miracle get everyone (devs and management) to switch to $latest_fad, it's a huge pain to go back through and bug test/change every process to accommodate the new software.
I don't think "people should stop making and switching to new things" is a fair distillation of the parent comment, as it seemed like they were just expressing frustration at the blistering pace the Javascript community is setting.
- eicnix 9y agoIsn't this a case for a microservices, etc.? Independent teams providing business capabilities through APIs would mostly eliminate the need to keep consistent technologies as long as the interface design follows shared guidelines.
- macintux 9y agoMost companies of any size are allergic to "pick your own toolchain" development strategies. The infrastructure team has to support them. Someone has to be responsible for hiring. Security needs to be able to review the environment. Employees should be able to be moved between teams. And so forth. Sure, I suppose devops can mitigate the infrastructure support problem, but overall most companies strongly prefer standardization.