> Someone else talks about that we need to [...] X [...] because that's where the leaders of the industry are moving to This is the definition of cargo cult, a

> Someone else talks about that we need to [...] X [...] because that's where the leaders of the industry are moving to This is the definition of cargo cult, and companies in our industry have a higher than average tendency to behave this way. Most technology, principles, methodologies, programming patterns, project management patterns etc etc, are subjective, as in they work well for certain projects... not all. Even the massive over complexity we see, for example in containers, are sometimes worth it, they have their place. The issues come when people start behaving as you have found by copying what others are doing because they make the over simplistic relationship between their chosen tools and their success as a business. Either convince your peers, or even superiors that mimicry is a poor basis for technological choices (best argued by doing the analysis yourself and pointing out the real world applicability), or find a different company that understands this (they do exist).