Boring Tech Has Survived a Thousand Tuesdays
Every few months some new tech trends:
- A brand new database that will finally replace Postgres
- A language that will finally kill PHP
- A paradigm that makes everything you shipped last year look naive
Standards are great. Let`s build a new one
These days I read the announcement, think "cool", and go back to my Postgres, node and .NET. For a while I assumed this was the moment developers stop optimizing for novelty and start optimizing for reliability.
It is not that. Boring is a feature, and as usual it took a few late-afternoon incidents to understand why.
Boring does not mean outdated
Boring technology is technology whose failure modes you already know. Postgres is boring not because it is old, but because when it breaks, it breaks in ways thousands of people have already documented on every imaginable place. Its behavior under load is known. Its sharp edges are...
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