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by kyle_t 4534 days ago
"All of these tools have different trade-offs. There are so many trade-offs that simple blog post comparisons don't cut it. And so you have the "magpies" who try and figure out some of these trade-offs for themselves by experimentation. (That is what, in my opinion, hack days and 20% time are for, not your new production system.)"

Absolutely. Someone has to be the designated pseudo-magpie in order to architect the stack. Doing so effectively though requires a dev who can look past the buzzwords and elevator pitches to really get to the core of it. Essentially they have to be magpie and anti-magpie at the same time. Does this new technology really offer me any benefit or is it the same end result wrapped in new clothing?