> ...actual "engineers" tend to pick the most boring possible technology to do something. Because it probably works. That's because decent engineers understand

> ...actual "engineers" tend to pick the most boring possible technology to do something. Because it probably works. That's because decent engineers understand that their job is not tech but business - tech is only a means to an end, and that end is to help business thrive. I've been in the opposite situation of a bad dev pushing every big-data tech he took a fancy to, and the management not being clue-ful enough to understand where it was leading them. Big data frameworks are expensive in every way, and become heavy negative cost if the data is not big.