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A senior engineer advocates for choosing simple, proven technology over complex, trendy solutions. The author describes moving from microservices and Kubernetes to a monolithic architecture running on a single VPS with SQLite or Postgres, arguing that most applications don't need the complexity of distributed systems. The piece emphasizes that users care about working features, not architecture choices, and that boring, battle-tested tools allow developers to ship products faster while maintaining lower costs and cognitive overhead.

My 2026 Tech Stack is Boring as Hell (And That is the Point)

In private projects i much rather like a product to be “finished” and secure by design than having two billion dependencies and having to upgrade packages constantly or risking the security of users.
I try to cut every single dependency i can, especially ones that end up in the bundle.

This really resonates. After building and maintaining a few “impressive” systems, I’ve learned that complexity is a tax you keep paying forever. The boring stack isn’t about being lazy—it’s about being intentional. A monolith, a relational DB, and a predictable deploy pipeline let you reason about your system, move fast, and actually sleep at night. Users don’t reward architectural purity; they reward reliability. Shipping something understandable that works &gt; maintaining a distributed science project. Solid reminder for 2026 👌

I’d make the same argument for a Spring Boot app (using Groovy because it kicks ass)—yes, you’d still have to have a UI… or even Rails, which, if I remember correctly, Shopify uses; the author mentions Shopify as being a monolith.

Remember YAGNI? For some reason developers reinvent this rule over and over again.

It’s 2026 and we’re still having arguments about this…