The Silver Bullet Syndrome

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Claims that every new language, framework or platform will solve everything, then shows failures: WCF marketed as a unified silver bullet yet introduced complexity and rewrites; npm ecosystem has 1.5 billion downloads and half a million packages and the left-pad removal broke builds (11 lines), with modules like isarray at 18 million downloads and 72 dependents; microservices, Docker and React bring orchestration and migration pain; conclusion: no silver bullet — evaluate context, cost, stability and real business value before adopting.

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1. 0:00Introduction and disclaimers
2. 1:05The saga of WCF
3. 2:23The silver bullet myth
4. 5:31Java's enterprise struggles
5. 7:07The microservices craze
6. 8:32Persistence and ORMs
7. 10:03CQRS and NoSQL hype
8. 12:06Tech stack switching
9. 13:14Testing and TDD
10. 14:24Functional programming
11. 16:14JavaScript ecosystem chaos
12. 20:33Framework churn
13. 24:06Building and tools
14. 26:58Scalability and IoT
15. 28:49Methodologies and training
16. 30:45The point of it all
17. 32:36Context and value
18. 44:33Final remarks

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