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A boring stack for a serious app: Next.js + Postgres

My default choices — and why I keep picking fewer moving parts.

A boring stack for a serious app: Next.js + Postgres

I keep coming back to the same answer: Next.js for the application, Postgres for everything that has to last, and as few moving parts as possible. No Kubernetes, no microservices, no message queue you do not actually need.

A boring stack ships fast and is easy to maintain for years. The originality belongs in the product, not in the plumbing.

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