What I like about boring tech is, that in my experience it results in that these kind of decisions just becoming less important. It makes it harder to shoot you

What I like about boring tech is, that in my experience it results in that these kind of decisions just becoming less important. It makes it harder to shoot yourself in the foot with when trying to predict the future. Especially in early stages of a company, where I don't yet know what the product that sticks will look like, I'd rather have a Postgres that I can pivot on in pretty much any direction and I'm hardly ever the first one to run into a problem, than a hyper specialized novel database that might have been strictly speaking the famous "better tool for the job" when I started.