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Great piece. In fact, this is another big topic. I can't image a bank switching technology in a such easy way for components that maybe are critical. A technol
by bontoJR 12y ago
Great piece. In fact, this is another big topic. I can't image a bank switching technology in a such easy way for components that maybe are critical.
A technology switch can have multiple sides, sometimes the success is way beyond expectations and the current implementation doesn't fit the real requirements, making the switch looking more to a success rather than a failure. On the opposite it's very common to have the exact same problem you described, new trending technology picked, hit the limit, switch to and old more robust solution, this is definitely a failure and is something managers don't like.
I faced a similar problem with Mongo 2 years ago, had the same switch to PostgreSQL.
- IndianAstronaut 12y agoThe problem with older technologies is that their scaling capabilities are limited. My company is currently trying to use Microsoft's OLAP tool for data analysis when it should be using something more scalabke for the quantity of data we have.
- vezzy-fnord 12y agoI think you're wrongly equating "old" with more undesirable epithets like "enterprise" and "proprietary". There's a ton of old technologies that scale marvelously, and using software age is a heuristic as probably really poor when you should really be studying internal qualities.