Ha! A close cousin to what I call "Resume Driven Development". Most engineers don't want to add to or maintain something someone else built prior. Since most pe

Ha! A close cousin to what I call "Resume Driven Development". Most engineers don't want to add to or maintain something someone else built prior. Since most people are working on and inheriting monoliths at small to midsize companies, the "micro services are what successes like Google do" era has been a real boon to RDD because you've got this great ready made justification for a rebuild. It would be a much harder sell to rebuild a better 2.0 of your monolith. In most cases, you don't need to do either for business value. But we pretend it is needed so that we can get a chance to do something blue sky for a change. I'm pretty conscious of when I'm RDDing but I've seen a lot of folks really delude themselves into thinking there is an urgent need to rebuild. It's very amusing watching RDD theater play out.