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I'd love to work on a "boring" stack and just ship features and build stuff but... companies are like a herd, and they all ask for the same microservices' technologies when interviewing, no matter what they are building.

So if I stay with a boring stack, I'd lose competitive advantage and face the potential of being "un-hirable" in the not-so-distant future.

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Well ... that depends a lot on where you want to be hired. There is tons of companies which are not at all that interesting like the latest startup but deliver awesome stuff all the time. IMHO, there is not a correlation between developer technology and delivering awesome stuff. There is a correlation between management style and mental capability to delivering awesome stuff.

I mean obviously we all have to move ourselves from "Fortran boring" to "Java boring" every decade or two, but being un-hirable because of "Java boring" is not a thing.

Senior DevSecOps Engineer responsible for converged, cross-cloud cyber-resilience platform security

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unix greybeard who writes bash scripts to grep secrets in git repo

They're the same, but the word salad ver is more understandable to VC and HR types

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