arthurread | 9 years ago | on: Happiness is a Boring Stack
I agree. Kind of. You get to choose the kind of problems you work on, and the way you break up your time. If you want to innovate on the infrastructure, if you find that interesting or if worth the gains for the kind of scenarios you work on then go for it. At the same time focusing on solving problems in the programming infrastructure, spinning cycles learning new techniques means you get less time actually solving problems in your actual problem domain. You don't need a $3000 carbon fiber road bike to get to your friends house down the street, no matter how many articles you read about how good that road bike is. I suppose the idea is use the most boring stack that can get the job done.