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Pick the simplest tech stack you can find.

There is a lot of merit in that argument.

It never ceases to amaze me how much effort we now spend on nothing but infrastructure and architecture. It's like the Cloud Way of "cattle not pets" and "infinite horizontal scalability" may no longer be questioned.

Meanwhile you could build almost anything in this space with little more than a rack of real servers, some respectable application code written in a fast language, and a bit of scripting and OSS for the glue.

Obviously that sort of environment wouldn't be sufficient for every modern, online-first application but how many years would it take to outgrow it? Many applications never reach that scale. The lucky few would be in a great position to expand from if their starting point was simple and transparent with minimal dependencies.