Do You (Really) Want Bleeding-Edge Technology?

Will switching to the latest version of your libraries *really* make your development go faster?

Is it worth investing a lot of time in research while there is a tried-and-true, production hardened solution readily available?

How do new shiny things for developers help your product gain a competitive advantage?

To be fair, even e-mail was considered bleeding edge at one point, which has of course become a staple in our means of communication. Some people would even argue that e-mail is old fashioned!

To help us figure this out, we have Alpar Gal around the campfire today.

Alpar Gal is a passionate software developer. He started his journey as a c++ developer 15 years ago. Couple of years later switched to java and web application development. He is coding for fun in his free time when he is not busy at home with the kids. His is interested in software development topics in general and ios development.