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Systems

Lindy Effect

Survivability.

The article

If

For non-perishable things like ideas or software, the longer they have survived, the longer they are likely to survive.

Then

If you need a stable system for 10 years, choose a technology that has already been around for 10 years (e.g., PostgreSQL over a new NoSQL).

Unless

Hype Cycle Analysis

Source

Coined by Albert Goldman (New Republic, 1964); formalized by Benoit Mandelbrot and popularized by Nassim Taleb, Antifragile (2012).

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