Hyperstack: Building Resilient Systems with Boring Primitives

The tech industry loves novelty. New frameworks, new databases, new paradigms—we're constantly chasing the next big thing. But here's what 15 years in the industry has taught me: boring wins.

The Problem with Shiny

Every new technology comes with promises:

• 10x faster performance
• Developer productivity through the roof
• Problems you didn't know you had, solved

But they also come with:

• Immature tooling
• Sparse documentation
• Unknown failure modes
• A community still figuring things out

The Boring Stack

Here's what we use at production scale:

1. PostgreSQL

Not MongoDB. Not Cassandra. Not the latest time-series database.

Why? Because Postgres has:

• 30+ years of production hardening
• ACID guarantees you can trust
• Extensive tooling and community knowledge
• Performance that's "good enough" for 99% of use cases