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by mannykannot 3233 days ago
I am fine with it the way it is, as I have seen too many 'ego' and resume-padding projects justified by nebulous claims of benefit. I was looking at a case recently, where the use of a fashionable database engine, sold on making the application more fault-tolerant in ways that did not really matter, instead impaired the exploitation of its innate parallelism.

It is not difficult for the nominal technical expert to guide a client into choosing the solution he wants, rather than the one the customer needs.