[perrygeo]

Exactly. Choose boring technology, but more importantly choose technology that works within your org and keep it consistent.

Say your company chooses risky, bleeding edge tech and uses it everywhere. You'll build institutional knowledge that can be transferred across projects, lowering the risk.

If every single app or microservice uses a different "boring technology" - one team is using Python and Postgres, another team is using Ruby and MySQL, etc - the knowledge gets siloed quickly which increases risk, no matter how "boring" those individual choices may seem.