For over a decade, I have been a professional web developer throughout the digital marketing space and municipal government straight out of college. Everything about technology excites me, don’t get me wrong. But throughout my tenure of being a developer, I’ve learned that the developer mindset is warped irregardless of locale. Coming from the New York City tech scene, now in the Nashville tech scene, I’ve seen similarities in this mindset. Maybe because Nashville is a large conglomeration of ideas from different metro areas, but Nashville is losing the southern charm that the rest of Tennessee still has.
I’ve learned, as a CEO, that technologies being used in business grow at a different pace than what the tech space dictates. The future is definitely open-source, yet Nashville still sits in closed-source proprietary technologies. Languages such as PHP power 4 out of 5 (80%) of all web sites on the Internet, yet about 80% of that 20% are large Nashville businesses (primarily Health care) still stuck on Microsoft technologies.
The good news, startups and middle sized businesses in Nashville are starting to make the move to open-source. Bellerose Web Media LLC is one of those proudly using stable open-source technologies.
While developers show off their Angular 5/6 skills, reactJS, node.js — these are good technologies, but they are still new. Businesses need to use software that are stable and well established such as jQuery and even plain JavaScript.
Developers need to think of the business model over “what’s cool” because the business model is what gives them a paycheck.