You have a lot of tech companies digging up gold, and a whole lot more selling shovels to the rest of the crowd. Most of the software tech world is bullshit. M

You have a lot of tech companies digging up gold, and a whole lot more selling shovels to the rest of the crowd. Most of the software tech world is bullshit. Most best practices are bullshit. And, if I were feeling a bit conspiratorial, I'd say the large tech companies do this on purpose. They promote fads that overburden any smaller company with more modest budgets, thus keeping competitors at an arm's length. Resume-driven-development plays a role in this as well. A lot of companies following the FAANG cargo cult are digging their own grave and don't even know it. They don't realize they don't have the manpower for microservices. Or the calendar time to make it work and still get product out the door before their competitor that doesn't even unit test eats their entire lunch.