Hype is as bad as seeing a promising technology just as hype without trying understand the problems it might solve.
This is quite frustrating for both people who are aware of those issues and trying to fix them as well as the people missing out on the real advantages of such technologies.
This reminds me of similar sentiment around virtualization and cloud computing later in my peer group:
Some sold VMs as security feature and people focused their criticism on that, without understanding other advantages like quick/self-service provisioning of systems.
Later one, cloud computing was trivialized as "it now just somebody elses computer" which completely ignored advantages like no ramp up costs and the ability to problematically manage your systems life cycle.
PS: Considering every new thing a fad probably also makes you consider 'hadoop' the latest shit in big data processing and assume today's tech companies hipster are fighting over wordpress plugins. (Like, really?)
This is quite frustrating for both people who are aware of those issues and trying to fix them as well as the people missing out on the real advantages of such technologies.
This reminds me of similar sentiment around virtualization and cloud computing later in my peer group:
Some sold VMs as security feature and people focused their criticism on that, without understanding other advantages like quick/self-service provisioning of systems. Later one, cloud computing was trivialized as "it now just somebody elses computer" which completely ignored advantages like no ramp up costs and the ability to problematically manage your systems life cycle.
PS: Considering every new thing a fad probably also makes you consider 'hadoop' the latest shit in big data processing and assume today's tech companies hipster are fighting over wordpress plugins. (Like, really?)