Architecture & practice·Complexity and how it accumulates
the answer was Kafka again, and the problem this time was a nightly report over four thousand rows.
Golden hammer
Also calledlaw of the instrument, if all you have is a hammer
Reaching for the tool you know rather than the tool that fits, because familiarity is doing the choosing. Everyone does it, and the tell is that the technology is picked before the requirements are stated. It is worth naming carefully in a review, because the counter-argument is often legitimate — a team that operates one technology well may genuinely be better off with an imperfect fit than with an unfamiliar tool nobody can debug at 3am.