I have beef with people who boast $big_corp uses X/Y/Z.
This beef applies to both commercial vendors using corporate logos on their "customers" pages, as well as open source projects wanting to hype up their community.
Why ?
Simple. $big_corp is BIG. I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find all sorts of commercial and open-source technologies being used at $big_corp.
It doesn't mean they use it for critical functions or even any production functions.
And then when we start talking about "tech-savvy" $big_corp such as Uber, then its almost guaranteed they've got some devs sitting somewhere playing around with bleeding-edge tech .... but it still doesn't mean they are using it in production, or will be using it "soon" ... that tech might well get bored of X/Y/Z move on to the "next big thing".
Or they might deploy it to production but only in Beta test to select customers, or A/B testing to larger groups.
This beef applies to both commercial vendors using corporate logos on their "customers" pages, as well as open source projects wanting to hype up their community.
Why ?
Simple. $big_corp is BIG. I'm sure if you look hard enough you'll find all sorts of commercial and open-source technologies being used at $big_corp.
It doesn't mean they use it for critical functions or even any production functions.
And then when we start talking about "tech-savvy" $big_corp such as Uber, then its almost guaranteed they've got some devs sitting somewhere playing around with bleeding-edge tech .... but it still doesn't mean they are using it in production, or will be using it "soon" ... that tech might well get bored of X/Y/Z move on to the "next big thing".
Or they might deploy it to production but only in Beta test to select customers, or A/B testing to larger groups.