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0 pointsznpy10mo ago0 comments

> and in a space that wasn't easy for guys from other parts of tech to join easily and call it out (e.g., SRE, Backend, Design, Front-end, Systems Engineering, etc.).

As an SRE/SysEng/Devops/SysAdmin (depending on the company that hires me): most people in the same job as me could easily call it out.

You don't have to be such a big nerds to know that you can fit 6TB of memory in a single (physical) server. That's been true for a few years. Heck, AWS had 1TB+ memory instances for a few years now.

The thing is... Upper management wanted "big data" and the marketing people wanted to put the fancy buzzword on the company website and on linkedin. The data people wanted to be able to put the fancy buzzword on their CV (and on their Linkedin profile -- and command higher salaries due to that - can you blame them?).

> In other words, it's quite simple to sell complexity or obscure technology for most of these people

The unspoken secret is that this kind of BS wasn't/isn't only going on in the data fields (in my opinion).

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steveBK12310mo ago

> The unspoken secret is that this kind of BS wasn't/isn't only going on in the data fields (in my opinion).

Yes, once you see it in one area you notice if everywhere.

A lot of IT spend is CEOs chasing something they half heard/misunderstanding a competitor doing, or a CTO taking Gartner a little too seriously, or engineering leads doing resume driven architecture. My last shop did a lot of this kind of this stuff "we need a head of [observability|AI|$buzzword].

The ONE thing that gives me the most pause about DuckDB is that some people in my industry who are guilty of the above are VERY interested in DuckDB. I like to wait for the serial tech evangelists to calm down a bit and see where the dust settles.

znpyOP10mo ago

> Yes, once you see it in one area you notice if everywhere.

Exactly. It cannot be unseen. It’s almost a curse.

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