And you are here why?

Let’s get something out of the way first               Boring =/= Bad Of course there is any amount of Boring   and   Bad (°) out there, but here the reference is to stuff that #JustWorks, whose implementation surface is well defined, whose failure modes are well understood, and whose edge cases tend to qualify as “Good Problems To Have”. #Postgres   is Boring.   #Varnish   is Boring.   #AWS   is Boring.   #Erlang   is Boring. Wait,   what ?   Erlang ?Yes indeed, it is, in many ways, the   quintessential   Boring technology. Remember, your job, as a technologist, is to keep the company in business. Everything else — reducing costs, increasing revenue, using the best tool, “having fun”, etc. — are subordinate to keeping the company in business (°°). And, keeping a system working reliably is waaay more expensive that building the damn thing in t...