[lordleft]

>What’s changed the least? The “boring” technology. Postgres and Redis required zero hijinks to keep running. Even Django itself caused very little trouble when I upgraded from Django 1.5 to Django 4.0 in June 2022 — I barely had to touch my Django views! Most of the Django changes were in configuration and routing, and the most difficult single thing was migrating ancient Django 1.5 session data to the modern Django 4.0 format so users wouldn’t get logged out during the migration.

The older I get, the more I appreciate the value of reliable and relatively unchanging software components. Not that there isn't a place for innovation, but there's also a place for good things that endure.