Can you describe a scenario where some members of your engineering team disagreed with your choice of technology and how you approached resolving the issue?

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As an Engineering Leader we need to make multiple technological choice keeping
business , risk , availability, maintainability and performance factor in mind
and lots of disagreement happens , but we should always try to back that with
data . 
One such instance that happened was , At my previous organisation we were
creating a reward engine for credit cards , calculate rewards based on multiple
events for that to process calculation in parallel we needed to select a
workflow engine , So he had three choices either build our own , use an open
source or use a Saas Product . I assiged this taks to a developer of my team to
do research , get the load testing data and POC code , as a result of which
after few days based on his finding we first concluded that building our own
workflow engine require a lot of effort and maintainance as a result of we will
as of now divert from our busienss goals . For a paid product when we did
calculation it , it prooved out to be too costly when we estimated the cost
based on load, so only option was between two open source technology airflow and
temporal . He gave me a code walth thorugh and showed the throughout ,
performace  and number wise airflow was doing better and he was also pushing for
airflow , but on the other hand temporal numbers was not that bad and best thing
was that its ease of use and low maintanianbility so I sugested to use temporal
at that time the developer was not agreeing , I explained it that while choosing
the technology number doesnot matter we need to think about maintainability ,
support and with ease how this can fit in our echo system , and have an unbiased
opinion I included a senior developer from my team in the discussion with all
the data regardig number and effort estimate and convinced the junior developer
that lets use temporal.

Can you describe a scenario where some members of your engineering team disagreed with your choice of technology and how you approached resolving the issue?

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