I once heard a quote, actually about video games but it seems to have stuck with me and can be applied to other things as well: "Video games are a big deal because a big deal is made of video games". A bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think the same thing happens in IT.
The hype that gets generated can keep you on this strange hamster wheel where you're never learning anything properly but keep jumping from one thing to another. I've been on that wheel and it's not a good feeling.
I find tools like this: thoughtworks.com/radar and this: cncf.io/projects/ to be very useful to show how mature something is and is good guidance for me whether or not to spend my time investigating into a particular tool.
I once heard a quote, actually about video games but it seems to have stuck with me and can be applied to other things as well: "Video games are a big deal because a big deal is made of video games". A bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think the same thing happens in IT.
The hype that gets generated can keep you on this strange hamster wheel where you're never learning anything properly but keep jumping from one thing to another. I've been on that wheel and it's not a good feeling.
I find tools like this: thoughtworks.com/radar and this: cncf.io/projects/ to be very useful to show how mature something is and is good guidance for me whether or not to spend my time investigating into a particular tool.
Oh cool, those sites look great for helping decipher technologies. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the links. ThoughtWorks keeps surprising :)