good article to read however op is missing few points imo…
“I hope we’ll manage to find a better balance between the eagerness to learn new tech, and the focus on actually delivering value.”
This is not always up to dev, org level changes to move to cloud or use new tech happens at mngr/arch/lead level. There needs to be trust in new tech as well as doubt if it solves the problem. I totally disagree with this thinking against new technologies. Can you imagine not going to cloud in 2022 and deal with old server technologies ?
I rarely use the cloud at my current role and it was pretty awesome to see sysadmin skills I got when I started in 2014 were still relevant. Sometimes I wonder how insanely productive a PHP developer must be when he's given an Apache Server and MySQL to build a CRUD app after 20 years experience of a single stack, compared to my eight years experience of completely random technologies.
“I hope we’ll manage to find a better balance between the eagerness to learn new tech, and the focus on actually delivering value.”
This is not always up to dev, org level changes to move to cloud or use new tech happens at mngr/arch/lead level. There needs to be trust in new tech as well as doubt if it solves the problem. I totally disagree with this thinking against new technologies. Can you imagine not going to cloud in 2022 and deal with old server technologies ?