Hi Jean, Agreed 100% - both with the value of meetups and balancing the technical risk assessment. I'm doing a keynote at NFJS New York on "how to select and a

Hi Jean, Agreed 100% - both with the value of meetups and balancing the technical risk assessment. I'm doing a keynote at NFJS New York on "how to select and adopt technologies" that talks a lot about community focus, where in the technology adoption lifecycle the technology is, etc. You also have to look out for how many technologies you're managing. I'm a fan of polyglot programming and polyglot persistence, but that doesn't mean you should have five server side languages and seven different NoSQL data stores. Agreed re: innovating on peripheral apps. Only thing I'd add is select technologies that could be great for your core, innovate peripherally, and once you have some experience you can revisit the risks of introducing that tech into your core stack. Nice link re: the infoQ etsy talk - thanks!