What about security? I’d like to know author’s opinion on that. Very often this job requires you doing tradeoffs between performance and security, productivity

What about security? I’d like to know author’s opinion on that. Very often this job requires you doing tradeoffs between performance and security, productivity and low hanging fruits, manteinability and team or future team composition, or maybe avoid choosing the coolest and performant technology around because there might be a scarsicity of developers knowing that technology etc. etc.