I've been writing software for twelve years. My most contrarian opinion: boring technology is usually the right choice. Every new framework promises to solve the problems of the old one. Some do. Most introduce different problems with better marketing. The engineers I most respect reach for PostgreSQL before anything else. They use boring queues and boring caches and boring programming languages. Not because they lack ambition. Because they've shipped enough things to know that the exciting part should be the product, not the infrastructure. The best technology decision I ever made was refusing to add a microservice when a single well-structured table would do. Boring scales. Boring is maintainable. Boring means your 3am alert is a query optimization, not an existential distributed systems failure.
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