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Biggest learning after 10 years of programming

By C Chaitanya



Things will go wrong.

When I was younger, I tried all the new things. Whenever a new programming language came, or a new library/API was realized, I would be the first to try it out. It almost always made sense as these new things were being released to solve some problems and I would adapt them to solve my problems.

At first, they always work.

But then they start showing signs of problems. First small things, then big things and finally showstoppers and I would move back to tried and tested systems.

I see that trend a lot now. And we have very cool toys to play with. Redis, Mongo, Meteor, Firebase, Angular, nodejs etc.

Each new thing is good and I still play with all of them and I still use them in our products. But now, I always plan backups.

 'cause I know that they will fail and thats why I program backups in case the new tools fail. I always fall back to the tried and tested. Also, for all our products, the foundation is still tried and tested tools like MySQL, Java, PHP and Apache.

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