Talking People Down From Shiny

Just because a technology is new doesn't mean it's worth building your production software in, but sometimes it is, so it's good we have people looking at new things. When they get stuck advocating the newest thing, how do we use our experience and knowledge of systems to bring them back to the real world without a fight? What if they have the backing of management? We'll discuss some strategies for evaluating the technology from their perspective, the things to say to management, or when you _are_ management and don't want to throw weight around. [50]

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