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The Resume-Driven Development Epidemic

HotfixHero · DEV Community Free Beginner

This names the exact failure mode you are worried about: an engineer choosing a stack for how it will look on their next job application rather than for your launch. It walks through the tells (the tech is picked before the problem is understood, simple products get microservices they never needed) so you can spot it in a conversation. Use it to sanity check whether a choice serves the business or the resume.

  • The giveaway is a technology chosen before the problem is fully understood.
  • Trendy infrastructure adds cost and operational load a small team cannot absorb.
  • If only one person can support the tech, you have bought a future dependency, not a solution.
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The question it answers

  1. When my technical hire and I disagree on the tech stack, whose call is it?

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