> I believe the term for this is resume driven development. This also leads developers to focus on learning new technologies and integrating them to their curre

> I believe the term for this is resume driven development. This also leads developers to focus on learning new technologies and integrating them to their current project, whereas what the business really needs are stable boring solutions. This can also help recruiting; that's why Uber had all those technical blogs about how super-complicated and full of Scala their solutions were, when Uber's business could be run on a PC under a desk. Also why Palantir is called Palantir. They don't actually do anything cool or spy on people, but the name is intended to help get young tech people to work on boring government work without having to pay them more.