I think the same, we are headed for the tech version of the Dark Ages, all with feudalism. The corporations will be the feudal lords, because they have more capital than most of the countries in the world.
I'm just wondering how will conflict and fighting for resources play out during this time. Will the corporations simply hire military groups with their infinite money?
I think even Microsoft has abandoned SQL Server and spends more time improving their various Postgres Azure offerings. Their last major version release since 2022 added some AI features and thats it.
As a DBA, who does a lot of very heavy DBA like stuff, Postgres is in another league from SQL Server. Because Postgres is linux native and open source, its flexibility, introspection and operability, just doesnt have a comparison in SQL Server.
IMO, in the current tech landscape. SQL Server is essentially dead. Only companies using it are legacy windows shops which there are fewer and fewer of.
This is a refreshing perspective because recently I feel like I’m surrounded by people who think they can effectively implement complex software, just by hammering the best models.
It has been hard to explain that they are in fact just creating toy versions and there is no way they can do it without learning the underlying architecture. But they just keep going wasting 100s of dollars , lost in a sea of bugs
I feel like even that scenario is far-fetched. Was Computer cost so high any department trying to analyze data at this national scale is going to go bankrupt.
> There are some places doing it right, but they already were.
Could you be more specific what "right" is?
> I can't even say it usually doesn't work out long term because I worked with a lot of guys who did this and took a ton of Adderall while working practically around the clock. Every incentive structure in the organizations rewarded it along with social credibility from more junior engineers. (The last cowboy I worked with who pulled this shit ended up becoming the most senior engineer in the company, a multi-millionaire and worshipped like a god by 90% of the mostly fresh grads we were hiring).
I'm having a tough time believing this, it sounds like you're trying to backwards rationalize more productive engineers were "on drugs" and they delivered but "did it wrong"
Honestly, after years of seeing this play out, a lot of devs really lack the judgement to know when something is good enough to deliver and will endlessly delay projects to “ do the right thing”
I'm just wondering how will conflict and fighting for resources play out during this time. Will the corporations simply hire military groups with their infinite money?