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Easy: These companies have a promotion process which require you to generate "impact" to get promoted. Using existing but boring technology which solves the pro
by aeyes 2y ago
Easy: These companies have a promotion process which require you to generate "impact" to get promoted. Using existing but boring technology which solves the problem in an efficient manner apparently doesn't show off how smart you are.
This is not a snarky comment from an outsider, I very much work at such a company. It's ridiculous.
Edit: But I must admit that most of this was probably developed 10 years ago when the ecosystem was much more limited. At least they now came to the conclusion that it's time to move on.
I would not have recommended Postgres 10 years ago and even today there is no way it would work at the scale of Pinterest.
- openplatypus 2y agoSo sad because so true. Seeing working technology replaced because someone doesn't like it, get accolades for it, only to face the same limitations as old tech is just depressing.
- aeyes 2y agoYou forgot the next step: The people who developed it move on to other companies and nobody wants to touch it.
- ted_dunning 2y agoHBase is coming up on twenty years old. In 2008, scaling was really hard. And the senior engineers at that point had been badly burned by trying to scale during the 2000-2005 period. The comment about servers of the time being less powerful than smart phones of today is spot on.