The article argues that while organizations should be conservative with technology choices due to high maintenance costs and migration risks, they can be more experimental with development practices. Practices like TCR (test && commit || revert) can be easily adopted and abandoned without creating legacy burdens, unlike technology stacks. This creates an innovation asymmetry where practices offer more flexibility for experimentation than core technologies.
Background
The 'Choose Boring Technology' philosophy advocates using well-established, battle-tested technologies to minimize maintenance costs and unknown risks in software projects.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Mar 25, 2026 at 03:04 AM
- Score
- 6.0 / 10