Yeah I could totally see the director of engineering at my old company gleefully writing a smug blog post about how they don’t use technology X because they don

Yeah I could totally see the director of engineering at my old company gleefully writing a smug blog post about how they don’t use technology X because they don’t go for all the hip new trends (translation: we actively avoid anything trendy even if it’s good, and we have an extreme NIH attitude). As a result, everything from search indexing to queuing to RPC to deployment is 100% homegrown and you need a training course in how to use everything, everything has specific experts that you must consult, and everything is in need of debugging sometimes when it should just be standard tools used everywhere.