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The case for boring infrastructure
Novel stacks are a tax paid by the team that maintains them at 2am. Choose boring on purpose.
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Novelty has a maintenance bill
Every unusual dependency is a future hire who cannot debug production.
Our defaults
Postgres, a typed application layer, managed hosting, and one queue. We reach past that only when a measured constraint demands it.
When to break the rule
When the boring option would take ten times the work, and you can name the specific benchmark it fails.