In some ways I agree, in some ways I disagree. While a lot of recommendations are indeed largely hype (SPAs, MongoDB, ...) and often not useful solutions, ther

In some ways I agree, in some ways I disagree. While a lot of recommendations are indeed largely hype (SPAs, MongoDB, ...) and often not useful solutions, there really are some technologies that really are just poor and/or broken from a technical point of view, and need to be replaced. PHP and MongoDB (again!) come to mind. As far as I'm concerned, discussion about new tools isn't the problem - hype is. If newer tools legitimately make things easier, without any unreasonable drawbacks, then it's perfectly okay to recommend them - but beware of false simplicity.