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I hate to tell you, but new technologies like react and microservices are very useful. Top tech companies regularly design whole systems using microservices. It

• Nextgrid 5y ago
  I’ve never said that those technologies or processes have no use at all. However, in a lot of cases they could be considered premature optimisation. A bulldozer is also a useful tool, but in the real world nobody uses one for small jobs better suited to a shovel because of how expensive it is. In the tech industry however, VCs will be happy to bankroll the bulldozer for you so that it becomes cheaper than using the shovel. All else being equal, I too will pick the bulldozer at least as long as I’m not the one doing the maintenance it will inevitably require. Worse, give it enough time and the skill to use shovels will disappear, and now everyone will be using bulldozers for even the smallest jobs, with all the negative externalities attached to them. The only winners are the bulldozer manufacturers.
• yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
  New? Are you sure? React is about a decade old. Microservices is between two and seven decades old, depending on your definition. None of this stuff is new.
  • fdgsdfogijq 5y ago
    This is a good point. But actually, I would argue that people against these technologies still claim they are "new".
    • akoncius 5y ago
      is it even relevant? usually people who are against microservices or react are against those not because they are “new” but because usually those are incorrectly chosen tools for the job.
  • datavirtue 5y ago
    React is a screeching infant that has jaundice and a few other yet undiagnosed terminal illnesses.