I think it's important context that gets lost in so many tech conversations. Software engineering is a vast field covering almost every domain of human endeavor

I think it's important context that gets lost in so many tech conversations. Software engineering is a vast field covering almost every domain of human endeavor and they're all going to have different constraints. Some are technical and some are social. If you're working with 30 other engineers trying to marshal and unmarshal the same set of data for different purposes, it's really easy to tell them all "use SQL" instead of "here's the binary format invented by the guy who quit 7 years ago" even if that binary format was technically superior.