Patterns and tools exist that many a company could use and benefit greatly from. A lot of this actually gets described in various HN posts (ex just today “use

Patterns and tools exist that many a company could use and benefit greatly from. A lot of this actually gets described in various HN posts (ex just today “use a pixel to log traffic and ditch google analytics.), and this is something I really enjoy about this community! There’s a lot of competent posters and as long as you’re just enough competent yourself to make the distinction of “out of my league, google scale” and “could make this thing I’m building simpler and better” all is good. The key here use whatever’s “meeting your requirements”, and after 20 years in both pure tech and enterprise IT let me tell you — many “dark matter” devs could use stepping out of comfort zone and question whether there’s _simpler_ as well as _better_ ways of meeting reqs. At many places politics and culture have stood in the way, but this is slowly eroding. I personally believe this ”out of comfort zone check”, or evaluation, be done at regular intervals be it regarding infra, providers, tooling or languages and it’s patterns. It’s how you learn, and more important _unlearn_! My last few years at enterprise dev shops seem to point at “we’ve won” at the floor, when it comes to embracing open source and a sharing mindset (at least here in Sweden). For me personally — happy times! Finally I’m actually allowed to use that pqsql or open source monitoring tool, and no one raises a brow. This gives you magnificent opportunities but also an incredible amount of potential foot-guns!