I was reading this article about the CTO of a company that makes an open-source Enterprise Service Bus saying that you shouldn’t use one unless you really need it, and I liked this quote:

Architects and developers using an ESB in these cases are probably engaging in “resume-driven development (RDD).” If anybody asks you if you’ve deployed an ESB in an application you’ve worked on you can say, yes. And then you can hope the hiring manager doesn’t ask if the application really required the technology.

“Resume-driven development.” I like that; I’ll have to remember it.