技术新闻和技术会议等地方,传播的都是行业的前瞻性观点,这些声音过于响亮,得到了最大的权重。
但是,请不要忘记,世界仍然运行在 Excel 、Java 8 和 Sharepoint 上面。
This piece of the puzzle is the one that worries me the most. What I’m worried about is that places like Hacker News, r/programming, the tech press, and conferences expose us to a number of tech-forward biases about our industry that are overenthusiastic about the promises of new technology without talking about tradeoffs. That the loudest voices get the most credibility, and, that, as a result, we are listening to complicated set-ups and overengineering systems of distributed networking and queues and serverless and microservices and machine learning platforms that our companies don’t need, and that most other developers that pick up our work can’t relate to, or can even work with.
I’ve spoken and written about it at length, but, most times, easier is best.
And, if the tech is, in fact old and outdated, and the tradeoff from replacing it is lower than the tradeoff of keeping it, we shouldn’t be jumping to replace it with the latest and greatest. While we should evaluate new tools evenhandedly, most times, Postgres works just fine.
For better or worse, the world l runs on Excel, Java 8, and Sharepoint, and I think it’s important for us as technology professionals to remember and be empathetic of that.
From IT runs on Java 8:
https://veekaybee.github.io/2019/05/10/java8/