Personally I prefer to wait until technology is battle tested before adopting. New technologies are for side projects imo. If I had to categorize myself I would say early-late majority on this graph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations#/medi...)
Things we consider industry standard though, why should you need to fight for it? An example I can think of, dependency injection. Ideally you can test your software better and realease more reliable builds. Believe it or not I do come across companies that still are not aware of these concepts. Introducing it would be possible without breaking anything because you can continue instantiating services the old fashioned way.
With newish stuff that's still changing, if it won't impact production (i.e., tooling) I'm up for adopting it earlier than usual.
One example I can think of is javascript bundling and packaging. This would not impact production, but will have a pretty big impact on feature integration between team members and rate of completion. In MVC you need to hand type up the path of all your JS files and stick them into bundles. Not bad, not great either. Instead you could take your flavor of package management and have that bundle and minify your js files for you automatically.
I've been around government contracting and when you see problems that come up a lot, that we have industry standard solutions too, it's hard not to feel frustrated. I get where you're coming from though, just sharing my experience :)
Things we consider industry standard though, why should you need to fight for it? An example I can think of, dependency injection. Ideally you can test your software better and realease more reliable builds. Believe it or not I do come across companies that still are not aware of these concepts. Introducing it would be possible without breaking anything because you can continue instantiating services the old fashioned way.
With newish stuff that's still changing, if it won't impact production (i.e., tooling) I'm up for adopting it earlier than usual.
One example I can think of is javascript bundling and packaging. This would not impact production, but will have a pretty big impact on feature integration between team members and rate of completion. In MVC you need to hand type up the path of all your JS files and stick them into bundles. Not bad, not great either. Instead you could take your flavor of package management and have that bundle and minify your js files for you automatically.
I've been around government contracting and when you see problems that come up a lot, that we have industry standard solutions too, it's hard not to feel frustrated. I get where you're coming from though, just sharing my experience :)