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Choosing boring technology on purpose

Every exciting choice spends the same budget: the number of things that can surprise you at three in the morning.

Engineering Nadia Osman Nadia Osman
A large open-plan office floor

We keep a written list of the interesting technologies we are allowed to use. It has three entries and it has never had four.

Postgres, a job queue, and a server that renders HTML. That is most of the stack, and it has been most of the stack for four years.

The three slots

New technology gets adopted by taking a slot, which means something else leaves. The rule sounds arbitrary until the first time it stops an argument in ten minutes.