A quiet argument for boring infrastructure

There is a particular kind of engineering vanity that wants every system to be distributed, eventually consistent, and multi-region from day one. It is expensive and it is lonely.

A single Postgres instance, backed up nightly, will outlast most startups. It will outlast most architectures designed to outlast it.

What boring buys you

• Debuggability. One log stream, one query plan.
• A team that can hold the whole system in their head on a Tuesday.
• The freedom to be interesting in the product, not the plumbing.

Be radical somewhere else.