So if we are talking about "traditional consulting", that usually means MBB/Big Three

The value they add is their corpus of previous work to lean on and sell. And anybody at the firm can reference that. But it's always almost the junior level consultants doing the work, and a bunch of c-suites trying to manage it and sell it.

So when you work with a firm like this, you are going to get a team who has managed a similar project as yours, but it usually ends up being generic and trying to repeat past successes.

I really think that's where some of the boutique firms are being different.

Instead of just saying "here is our Lean Six Sigma team", they can say "we've got these four people who are perfect for technical implementation, and here is a project manager who has done almost exactly this before, and here is a RevOps person who has worked in your actual industry".

Maybe someone is an expert on some super obscure domain. They might not qualify for a full time consultant position at a big 3 firm, can suddenly be pulled in on projects that are their specialty.

Mostly these boutique firms can put together a more highly specialized and focused team than the prebuilt teams at a place like Bain or McKinsey.

I use a lot of `buildx` stuff. It ostensibly works in podman, but in practice, I haven't had much luck

I think part of that is a bit of a collapose of traditional consulting. There's been a huge transition into the boutique firms now.

Yep.

And meta/hack is probably the other huge mainstay of PHP outside of what the person you responded to said. And hack with HHVM was supposed to be the panacea for PHP

Just saying.

What people used to use PHP for tasks, has largely been replaced by Python.

And still nobody outside of Meta cares about hack.

The niche I think PHP had back in the day has largely been supplanted by Python.

Maybe it’s better now, but after moving on from it to basically anything else after a 25 year career, I don’t miss it.