People love the idea of being big and having "big problems". Wanting to use Hadoop isn't that different from wanting to use all sorts of fancy "web-scale" databases.
Most of us don't have scaling issues or big data, but that sort of excludes us from using all the fancy new tools that we want to play with. I'm still convinced that most of the stuff I work on at work could be run on SQLite, with designed a bit more careful.
The truth is that most of us will never do anything that couldn't be solved with 10 year old technology. And honestly we should happy, there's a certain comfort in being able to use simple and generally understood tools.
Most of us don't have scaling issues or big data, but that sort of excludes us from using all the fancy new tools that we want to play with. I'm still convinced that most of the stuff I work on at work could be run on SQLite, with designed a bit more careful.
The truth is that most of us will never do anything that couldn't be solved with 10 year old technology. And honestly we should happy, there's a certain comfort in being able to use simple and generally understood tools.