One problem is that technology is sold with stories about wildly successful companies. This storytelling doesn't concern itself with real world use cases.
I can't count the number of times I've heard Docker pitched with "it's what Google uses!", while the truth was that they didn't.
Before that it was MongoDB which was "just like Spanner which was key to Google's success", while in reality it wasn't even similar.
And you should organize in Spotify-like tribes, even though that idea is one person's idea about how they wished things worked, filtered though an eco chamber of conference talks.
As an engineer it is easy to dismiss these ideas when you have enough behind the scenes knowledge. But the point of storytelling isn't to build technology, but to pitch it. It does a good job at that. So use it, but wisely.
I can't count the number of times I've heard Docker pitched with "it's what Google uses!", while the truth was that they didn't.
Before that it was MongoDB which was "just like Spanner which was key to Google's success", while in reality it wasn't even similar.
And you should organize in Spotify-like tribes, even though that idea is one person's idea about how they wished things worked, filtered though an eco chamber of conference talks.
As an engineer it is easy to dismiss these ideas when you have enough behind the scenes knowledge. But the point of storytelling isn't to build technology, but to pitch it. It does a good job at that. So use it, but wisely.