Dev recalls the Hadoop-to-Spark era: blogs written by humans and knowledge via code reviews
vboykis · x · 2026-09-11
Developer vboykis looks back at the previous tech era's defining controversies and culture: arguing over whether to finally replace Hadoop with Spark, whimsical icons, startups ending in .ly, O'Reilly and Manning books, and Joel Spolsky still blogging.
She adds that blog posts were for and by humans, you could meet real people from Twitter, senior knowledge came through code reviews, VSCode was good, and you could mostly read NYT without a paywall. A nostalgic contrast with today's AI-era developer culture.
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