Boring Technology Is a Feature

Every project starts with a decision about how much novelty to spend. New databases, new languages, new deploy targets — each one is a withdrawal from a budget you did not know you had.

The trick is to spend that budget on the part of the problem that is actually novel, and to be relentlessly boring everywhere else. If your product is interesting, your infrastructure does not need to be.

Boring technology has one underrated property: someone has already hit the bug you are about to hit, and written it down. That searchability is worth more than any benchmark.