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by Diti 3815 days ago
You could start slowly teaching yourself more about new technologies, but try and become even more an expert on the stuff you already know.

Perl and MySQL are strong choices and there must be a lot of big companies out there who still use them because it works for them. Startups always want the cutting-edge technology (NoSQL), but sometimes a good old RDBMS like MySQL is the way to go.

Inspired by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10084449