SOAP, REST, Big Data, microservices - it's funny how, at the time, everyone seems to be unbelievably vociferous that <technology_of_the_moment> is the only way to do things and that we should all be thankful that the great magnet in the sky gave us this sacred cow. Then, 5 years later, it's obviously the worst thing ever next to the <new_hotness>. <new_hotness> always being unevenly in some ways worse and in others better.

We need to, in our exuberance, ask ourselves: what are the current false Gods? Are we technologists that reason or a headless flock?