{"id":469,"date":"2020-01-03T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/?p=469"},"modified":"2020-01-03T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:25:58","slug":"cutting-edge-vs-bleeding-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/cutting-edge-vs-bleeding-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Edge vs. Bleeding Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.addsys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/new-solutions.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 21st Century has brought with it some amazing tools for programmers. However as many developers have gathered decades of experience a divide is forming between generations that can be challenging to navigate.<br><br>Once a technologist, plumber, carpenter, or mechanic has their preferred &#8220;tool-set&#8221; it can become difficult for them to introduce new tools because of the learning curve those new tools bring with them. Steep learning curves means mental gymnastics, and let&#8217;s face it, sometimes that can be tough for those seasoned vets who can already think of many ways to make their existing tools work.<br><br>In technology many of these &#8220;new&#8221; tools bring with them significant conceptual changes that may be much easier for a relatively fresh developer to learn than for our seasoned vets. However, if we can&#8217;t make those conceptual leaps we may well end up deprecating ourselves in the process.<br><br>At VeraciTek we offer &#8220;old faithful&#8221; skills such as Java, and C\/C++. Last century norms such as PHP, relational databases &amp; .NET. As well as cutting edge tools such as ReactJS, Node.js, MongoDB, and the like. <br><br>When it comes to bleeding edge, like Go (10 y\/o), Swift (5 y\/o), or even using some more mature languages in new ways, like Lambda functions on AWS, we have &#8220;been there, done that&#8221; with the transitions. Does our team know all of the technologies? Nope, but we&#8217;ve  summited enough of them to know how to navigate new territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 21st Century has brought with it some amazing tools for programmers. However as many developers have gathered decades of experience a divide is forming between generations that can be challenging to navigate. Once a technologist, plumber, carpenter, or mechanic has their preferred &#8220;tool-set&#8221; it can become difficult for them to introduce new tools because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,31,99,9],"tags":[315,195,340,338,13,337],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crystal-ball","category-future-tech","category-innovation-2","category-new-tech","tag-aws","tag-c","tag-golang","tag-mongodb","tag-php","tag-reactjs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/veracitek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}