The Case for Boring Technology

Every team gets a limited number of innovation tokens. Spend them wisely.

PostgreSQL is boring. It's also the best database for 90% of use cases. It handles JSON, full-text search, time-series data, geospatial queries, pub/sub, and job queues.

Cron jobs are boring. They're also the simplest way to run scheduled work.

Monoliths are boring. They're also the fastest way to ship and the easiest to debug.

The boring technology principle isn't anti-innovation. It's about being intentional: use boring technology for commodity problems, spend innovation tokens on your core differentiator.