Last week Marek Kirejczyk‘s essay on Medium about the dangers of hype driven development, which he described as “how teams bring doom on themselves,” triggered a massive online discussion about what’s driving today’s technology decisions.

In a nutshell, hype driven development (HDD for short) has been a long-standing buzzword — or anti-buzzword? — that’s been humming around for years, but Kirejczyk — the VP of Engineering at a small dev shop — tried to capture it with a definitive essay.

HDD happens when a development team picks the “newest, hottest technology” to use on a project, based on how the technology is trending on Twitter, or on a number of enthusiastic blog posts or conference talks.

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