The evolution of software development over the past decade has been very frustrating. Little of it seems to makes sense, even to those of us who are right in the middle of it. We usually only notice trends and popular frameworks and libraries after they’ve exploded in popularity. By that time they’re often so far removed from their original context that their initial technical merit is a hard-to-distinguish quiet signal in the overwhelming noise of hype, grift, and false promises. If you do take...