[mk_chan]

This is the perspective I’ve come to learn as well. Fact of the matter is what you want to do (and perhaps sell) is what actually matters, not the tools you use to achieve it. Programming language, frameworks, monitoring tech, monolith, microservices etc don’t matter at all as long as you are trading fine, able to deal with failures and move on with checks for next time, able to retain/convert customers and so on. As long as the business is served by the tech within the business constraints, the tech can be abstracted away from the business. Not to say it isn’t important because you are in fact enabling or accelerating the business, but the business is what matters.

The tools only start mattering when the maintenance and usage of the tools becomes a heavy constraint to doing what you actually want to do (big tech). That doesn’t actually happen very easily.