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0 pointsmanarth9y ago0 comments

> if you're a CTO with a startup with 10+ server-side developers and plan to hire at least as much in near future, suddenly all these dockers and microservices actually make sense

As a consultant, I often get asked those kinds of questions: "Should we use X?"

Whether it's programming languages, databases, operating systems, whether it's Chef vs Puppet vs Ansible vs Docker vs Whatever, it's a question that comes up a lot.

I generally answer it with "What are your team good at? What have they used, what do they know well?"

There are always exceptions to the rule, but in general I encourage people to play to the strengths of their team, rather than recommending Technology X because it's shiny and bang on-trend.

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golergka9y ago

Exactly my point. I used two broad categories just to paint the overall picture; the fact that they "make sense" doesn't mean that they're the silver bullet.

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0 pointsmanarth9y ago0 comments

> if you're a CTO with a startup with 10+ server-side developers and plan to hire at least as much in near future, suddenly all these dockers and microservices actually make sense

As a consultant, I often get asked those kinds of questions: "Should we use X?"

Whether it's programming languages, databases, operating systems, whether it's Chef vs Puppet vs Ansible vs Docker vs Whatever, it's a question that comes up a lot.

I generally answer it with "What are your team good at? What have they used, what do they know well?"

There are always exceptions to the rule, but in general I encourage people to play to the strengths of their team, rather than recommending Technology X because it's shiny and bang on-trend.