Such strongly opinionated statements should be taken with caution.
In our profession context is key and this theory does not always apply in every context.
Imagine if the Netflix guys were told to stay boring and not invent new shiny things? Ofcourse not everyone is in that scale.
I do not want to use the latest shiny tech but I do not want it to be boring as well. We are confusing KISS and boring here.
A company I used to work at was running a job server at 90% utilization all the time and it even worked as a jump box, this is simple and boring but its also plain stupid.
Invest some time and make it proper.
Maybe when I am 50 years old I will want a boring setup, but until then no. I want to be engaged and active in what I do.
> Imagine if the Netflix guys were told to stay boring and not invent new shiny things?
For what it's worth most of what Netflix is doing is delivering video files. This in itself does not require rocket science, a matching amount of Squid or any other caching reverse proxy is sufficient - and CDNs at this scale have been around for far longer than Netflix was.
I would change that last phrase, "I want to be engaged and active in what I do" to "I want to build something that solves user needs and ships and is maintainable." Or at least a mix between the two.
I would not change it no.
Let's say you are working on solving world hunger but you have to press 1 button every 24 seconds for 8 hours.
Yes the goal is great, but I wouldnt be able to do it for more than a week.
I need to be engaged and active in what I do 40 hours a week in which 40% is taken by the Gov as taxes.
Imagine if the Netflix guys were told to stay boring and not invent new shiny things? Ofcourse not everyone is in that scale.
I do not want to use the latest shiny tech but I do not want it to be boring as well. We are confusing KISS and boring here. A company I used to work at was running a job server at 90% utilization all the time and it even worked as a jump box, this is simple and boring but its also plain stupid. Invest some time and make it proper.
Maybe when I am 50 years old I will want a boring setup, but until then no. I want to be engaged and active in what I do.