Choose Boring Technology (2015)(mcfunley.com)
398 points by tosh | 225 comments
Dan McKinley's 2015 essay arguing that engineering teams should favor proven, well-understood technologies and spend limited 'innovation tokens' carefully.
#boring-technology on Hacker News
3 stories tagged boring-technology, newest first.
Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres(topicpartition.io)
500 points by enether | 359 comments
Blog post benchmarking Postgres as a pub-sub and queue system compared to Kafka, arguing for simpler, boring technology choices.
Boring tech is mature, not old(rubenerd.com)
429 points by mikece | 243 comments
Ruben Schade blog post arguing that "boring" technology like NetBSD is a mark of maturity and predictability valued by sysadmins, not age.