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For the older devs, has there been anything in the past like this? As in some new hyped tech that people kept trying to insert into their business?
by arduinomancer 4y ago
For the older devs, has there been anything in the past like this?
As in some new hyped tech that people kept trying to insert into their business?
- muglug 4y agoNoSQL! Rep from <NoSQL company> comes along, shows a CTO some graphs about how well it performs vs <BoringButReliableSQL>. If developers are unlucky CTO mandates a migration to NoSQL.
- vishnugupta 4y agoThe last hype cycle, from about 10 years ago, I remember is that of BigData and associated technologies such as MapReduce, Hadoop, NoSQL DBs, data pipelines and so on. That lasted for about 4 years I guess? Then ML took over.
- dilyevsky 4y ago* Certain aspects of social networks (I remember leadership at google being convinced everyone will do online stuff on social networks in around 2011) * To much smaller extent some core tech like NoSQL, SOA * More recently - AR/VR bubble
- wmf 4y agoSpeaking of Tim Bray, in the 1990s people kept using XML in places where it wasn't appropriate. There have been so many tech fads. Distributed objects (e.g. CORBA), mobile code, object databases, micropayments, push, WAP, and I want to give a special lifetime achievement award to VR which is now on its third hype wave.
- hanniabu 4y agoserverless
- MrMan 4y agoXML is the only one that was really as egregious, iirc.