The most exciting decision on our last project was choosing the most boring database we could find.
Postgres. Again. And the app has never been more interesting to build on top of.
Novelty has a bill
Every shiny tool comes with an invoice that arrives later: the migration nobody documented, the plugin abandoned by its maintainer, the 2 a.m. page for a failure mode no forum answer covers yet. New technology isn't free — it's financed.
Spend your novelty budget wisely
You get a small budget for new, risky technology on any project. Spend it on the thing that's actually your differentiator — not your job queue.
Boring technology is boring precisely because we already know how it breaks.
The result isn't a dull product. It's a team with enough attention left over to make the product exciting.
Guess which layer we get creative with.