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Software developers are seemingly on a perpetual path to discover the one true technology to unite them all. And yet there are no golden hammers, there is no one size fits all solutions. Instead we have to carefully weigh the pros and cons of our options and in some instances take the least worst approach. Rather than continue down this trail of disappointment, we need to embrace the and not the or. There can only be one does not in fact apply to software.
Software developers are seemingly on a perpetual path to discover the one true technology to unite them all. And yet there are no golden hammers, there is no one size fits all solutions. Instead we have to carefully weigh the pros and cons of our options and in some instances take the least worst approach. Rather than continue down this trail of disappointment, we need to embrace the and not the or. There can only be one does not in fact apply to software.
About Nathaniel Schutta
Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect and Java Champion focused on cloud computing, developer happiness and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books, appeared in countless videos and many podcasts. He’s also a seasoned speaker who regularly presents at worldwide conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches students to embrace (and evaluate) technical change. Driven to rid the world of bad presentations, he coauthored the book Presentation Patterns with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough, and he also published Thinking Architecturally and Responsible Microservices available from O’Reilly. His latest book, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, is currently available in early release.
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