Boring tech beats bleeding edge
We reach for Postgres before vectors, Django before Kubernetes, and REST before whatever lands on the orange site this week. Your next engineer will recognize the stack. Your 3 a.m. page will be easier to debug.
In practice
- A single well-indexed Postgres quietly doing the work of three services
- Server-rendered HTML before a framework you picked last quarter
- A well-documented REST API before a GraphQL layer nobody asked for












