Most often the technology isn't the most important thing in "web development". Understanding the customers needs (often better than the customer) and implementi

Most often the technology isn't the most important thing in "web development". Understanding the customers needs (often better than the customer) and implementing them is the point. Of course technology is important but just using sane (and proven) technologies that all on the team understand is often the best way forward. Wery seldom the problem with custom business apps is the technology or "webscale" issues etc which get all the attention on eg. HN. When creating apps which will be usen for maybe 10+ years using the most hip language or framework isn't so smart when considering maintainability. Eg. Java/PHP/mysql are all etremely well understood and work wery well. I've been doing this kind of development for about 15 years and not once has an application eg. needed to be clustered in any way for performance reasons (for HA reasons maybe).