Why Boring Infrastructure Wins
January 12, 2026 1 min read
Every few months a new database promises to fix everything wrong with the last one. Most teams would be better served picking Postgres and getting good at it.
The cost of novelty
Every unfamiliar tool is a tax on your on-call rotation. That tax compounds quietly until an incident makes it visible all at once.
When novelty is worth it
Not never — just rarely, and usually not on your critical path.
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