I doubt it's usually for the resume, per se. But I do think peer pressure is a very strong force, as are aspirations. Most of us would rather be able to tell ou

I doubt it's usually for the resume, per se. But I do think peer pressure is a very strong force, as are aspirations. Most of us would rather be able to tell our friends, "We're using this huge and complicated but massively scalable Kafka cluster", than, "Yeah, our message queue is a database table. No, it isn't web scale. No, we don't anticipate ever growing large enough for that to become a problem." Also, we like playing with new toys. Solving the same old problems the same old way we were doing it 20 years ago just isn't sexy.