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Not every engineering solution needs to make sense exclusively within the engineering domain. Some engineering solutions have purely business justifications.
by maratd 8y ago
Not every engineering solution needs to make sense exclusively within the engineering domain.
Some engineering solutions have purely business justifications.
For example, take a look at the Tesla Model X and its Falcon Wing Door. It is very clearly a stupid design from an engineering perspective, but is sufficiently unique to have its own name. It also very obviously draws everyones attention when used and draws attention to the product which further promotes it. So while everyone else has normal doors ... you have special doors. On top of that, the owner can say that they have an SUV without those pesky mini-van doors which obviously work better, but then you're driving a mini-van.
Similarly, while everyone else is using a vanilla database that does its job and warrants no special attention ... we're using blockchain! We're new, we're special, etc.
It's marketing, not engineering.
- maehwasu 8y ago+1 I've had success selling corporations "blockchain," but really what I'm selling is products/systems to improve badly outdated infrastructure. "Blockchain" is just what they need to tell their bosses in order to get approval for badly needed improvements.
- SlowRobotAhead 8y agoGood points, as it were, in 10 years when your "Falcon Wing Door" breaks because it's got a fraction the engineering time and lessons learned over 100 years of car door mechanisms you're going to be envious of people with those boring old regular doors. In 10 years when your blockchain is no longer supported by the developers and your new team has no idea how to manage it, it's showing it's age, it's breaking, you're going to be envious of people with those boring old databases.
- doubletgl 8y agoWell that might or might not align with the short-term business goals of someone. I agree that's stupid und not sustainable, but people have different goals. Like quaterly sales on Falcon Wing Doors and the bonus at the end of the year, and then you move on.
- UncleEntity 8y ago> Good points, as it were, in 10 years when your "Falcon Wing Door" breaks because it's got a fraction the engineering time and lessons learned over 100 years of car door mechanisms you're going to be envious of people with those boring old regular doors. Yep, which is why I've even given up on these newfangled door things and got myself a motorcycle -- there's millenia of "technology" behind (dis)mounting horses so I should be safe during the car door apocalypse. And, honestly, Tesla doors are probably as technologically advanced as a minivan hatchback.