From what I've seen over the years HN is on the leading edge of trends. If one really monitors the bleeding edge it doesn't feel that way. But people tend to fo

From what I've seen over the years HN is on the leading edge of trends. If one really monitors the bleeding edge it doesn't feel that way. But people tend to forget the very very very long tail behind the curve. We went through a hiring surge a year or so ago and I was astounded how many candidates had never used any cloud, GitHub, containers, micro services, modern tooling or language versions, etc. These are all things I assumed everyone had been using for several years now. Or if not, they'd already tried it and decided to move elsewhere. It was eye opening. On their on premises monolith skills will come in handy with the bleeding edge companies in a few years.