While you’re over there liking whatever random crap on Facebook (Facebook as a news outlet is just some kind of misunderstanding altogether), the normal guys are reading technical blogs from leading companies.
For example.
The Uber engineers’ blog: https://eng.uber.com/ Don’t know what Uber is? How are things back in the 1990s? Is Valdis Pelsh still speaking with an Estonian accent? For example, there’s an interesting article about how Uber’s engineers ran up against PostgreSQL performance and wrote their own NoSQL database based on MySQL, and the most interesting part — how they migrated a live system without a single minute of downtime.
Amazon’s cloud: https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/ For example, what Amazon did to survive the blizzard in the U.S.: https://aws.amazon.com/ru/blogs/aws/aws-ready-to-weather-the-storm/
Twitter: https://blog.twitter.com/ For example, how Twitter is migrating from the SHA-1 algorithm to SHA-256 in order to be a secure social network: https://blog.twitter.com/2015/sunsetting-sha-1
Facebook engineers on the line: https://code.facebook.com/ For example, how Facebook is advancing its hardware platform for efficient data centers, and even publishing all its inventions as open source: https://code.facebook.com/posts/1650070168592965/telecom-industry-embraces-open-compute-project/
Netflix: http://techblog.netflix.com/ For example, how they run automated fault-tolerance tests: http://techblog.netflix.com/2016/01/automated-failure-testing.html
While someone is holding forth on the advantages of one technology or another, these guys are deploying technologies for billions of users and know about it all firsthand.
I recommend subscribing and reading them cover to cover.