Comment by rad_gruchalski
4 months ago
Another way to look at it: working bleeding edge will become a competitive advantage and a signal to how competent the team is. „Do they consume it” vs „do they own it”.
4 months ago
Another way to look at it: working bleeding edge will become a competitive advantage and a signal to how competent the team is. „Do they consume it” vs „do they own it”.
Or a signal that, someone did not think about the bus factor and future of the project when most of the teams jumped ship.
Constantly chasing the latest tech trends has probably done more harm than good, because more often than not, it turns out that the latest hype technology actually does not deliver what the marketing had promised. Look at NoSQL and MongoDB especially as recent examples. Most people who blindly jumped on the MDB bandwagon would have probably been better off just using Postgres, and they later had to spend a lot of resources migrating away from Mongo.
To me constantly chasing the latest trends means lack of experience in a team and absence of focus on what is actually important, which is delivering the product.