Being charitable, in order for one of those new technologies to become mature and boring it requires guys like that to actually use it for things. So while it might be misguided we thank them for their sacrifice of getting caught on every sharp edge so they might be dulled (or at least documented) later.
And if the new tech is beneficial and adds enough value that it makes it worth replacing the old tech, then by all means go for it.
However, I can't count many companies I've seen decide to get into "the cloud" only to do lift-and-shifts and are now running their stack in slower and more expensive ways.
Over the last decade I worked for a fintech that did analytics for the investment banking industry and between 2016-2020 the amount of people that were shocked we weren't trying to shove blockchain somewhere was surreal.
Oh yeah, SOMEONE has to be be first.
It just doesn't have to be YOU!
If you want to be successful in your career, when you are put in charge of a big new project, on a tight timeline, high management visibility, etc.. you dig into your existing tried & true toolkit to get the job done. There's so many other variables, why needlessly add more risk no one asked for?
But yes, I'm glad there are maniacs out there.. I just don't want to work with them.
Granted, I remember symfony was very good, even in versions 1.x. It truly made working with PHP not suck as much as it did back in the day. I don't remember if there was ever a product of which it was born.
> you dig into your existing tried & true toolkit to get the job done
Haha. Yes. But when the c-suite is made up of top level management pushed out of the s&p 500, they always assume it’s their tried and true toolkit from another company. Believe me, it’s never the hammer the current engineering staff is holding. I’m slow clapping so hard for the business school graduates right now…
