[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":96},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-i-still-reach-for-boring-tech":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"date":81,"description":82,"draft":83,"extension":84,"image":85,"language":86,"meta":87,"navigation":88,"path":89,"seo":90,"stem":91,"tags":92,"__hash__":95},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-i-still-reach-for-boring-tech.md","Why I Still Reach for Boring Technology","Caio Prado",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":69},"minimark",[10,14,19,22,27,30,34,37,46,49,62,66],[11,12,13],"p",{},"There's a quiet pressure in software to always adopt the newest thing. But most\nproducts don't need novel infrastructure — they need something that works, that\nthe team understands, and that will still be maintained next year.",[15,16,18],"h2",{"id":17},"what-boring-actually-buys-you","What \"boring\" actually buys you",[11,20,21],{},"Boring technology is technology whose failure modes are already documented by\nthousands of people who hit them before you.",[23,24,26],"h3",{"id":25},"fewer-unknowns","Fewer unknowns",[11,28,29],{},"When you pick Postgres over a six-month-old database, you're also picking a decade\nof Stack Overflow answers, battle-tested drivers, and hiring pools that already know\nit.",[23,31,33],{"id":32},"time-spent-on-the-problem-not-the-tool","Time spent on the problem, not the tool",[11,35,36],{},"Every hour debugging a bleeding-edge dependency is an hour not spent on the thing\nyour users actually care about.",[15,38,40,41,45],{"id":39},"when-new-is-the-right-call","When new ",[42,43,44],"em",{},"is"," the right call",[11,47,48],{},"Restraint isn't dogma. Reach for something new when:",[50,51,52,56,59],"ol",{},[53,54,55],"li",{},"The boring option genuinely can't meet the requirement.",[53,57,58],{},"The upside is large and measurable.",[53,60,61],{},"You're prepared to own the sharp edges.",[15,63,65],{"id":64},"the-rule-of-thumb","The rule of thumb",[11,67,68],{},"Spend your innovation budget where it differentiates the product. Everywhere else,\nbe boring on purpose.",{"title":70,"searchDepth":71,"depth":71,"links":72},"",2,[73,78,80],{"id":17,"depth":71,"text":18,"children":74},[75,77],{"id":25,"depth":76,"text":26},3,{"id":32,"depth":76,"text":33},{"id":39,"depth":71,"text":79},"When new is the right call",{"id":64,"depth":71,"text":65},"2026-07-05","New tools are exciting, but boring, well-understood technology is usually the faster path to shipping something that lasts. A short case for restraint.",false,"md",null,"en",{},true,"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-i-still-reach-for-boring-tech",{"title":5,"description":82},"blog\u002Fwhy-i-still-reach-for-boring-tech",[93,94],"engineering","pragmatism","_JtPBJKP54rzG4WF9g3Q7AMErLCSag9YQKy7l7N2GAA",1784225139802]