Boring technology is technology that has been battle-tested in production at scale by many organisations, has a large community of people who have solved its problems, has comprehensive documentation, and is unlikely to introduce a breaking change that forces you to rewrite your integration.
The SellTrove tech stack is deliberately boring in its core components: MySQL for the transactional database, Redis for caching and queues, PHP/Laravel for the API layer, TypeScript/Next.js for the frontend. All boring. All battle-tested. All well-documented.
The exciting technology appears at the edges: XGBoost for ML pricing, LangChain for the Aria assistant, EKS for ML inference. These are exciting because the problem genuinely requires them.
Do not add exciting technology to a boring problem. Save your tolerance for complexity for the problems that cannot be solved with boring tools.
— Dick Bassey | DevDick | 2025