3 posts tagged with "boring-technology"
When someone proposed replacing the Kubernetes platform I'd built with something simpler, I didn't argue in meetings. I wrote 60 pages. The argument that won wasn't about features — it was about what happens when things go wrong.
I needed a quiz app for corporate training. Three npm packages, vanilla JavaScript, and a polling fallback later, it works everywhere - including networks that block modern web features.
I've watched companies chase shiny technology for nearly two decades. The pattern is always the same: promises of elegance, delivered complexity, and teams that can't sustain it.