--- title: Choose Boring Technology and Innovative Practices description: An extension of the classic 'Choose Boring Technology' argument, proposing that while teams should be conservative with technology choices (material that must... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/choose-boring-technology-and-innovative-practices-xtikil9m2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Choose Boring Technology and Innovative Practices | daily.dev og:description: An extension of the classic 'Choose Boring Technology' argument, proposing that while teams should be conservative with technology choices (material that must... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/choose-boring-technology-and-innovative-practices-xtikil9m2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XTiKIL9M2.png og:image:alt: Choose Boring Technology and Innovative Practices og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Choose Boring Technology and Innovative Practices **[Computer Things](https://daily.dev/sources/hillelwayne)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An extension of the classic 'Choose Boring Technology' argument, proposing that while teams should be conservative with technology choices (material that must run to support the business), they can afford to be more freely innovative with engineering practices and development tools. Practices carry no legacy maintenance burden — you can simply stop doing them — so teams get more 'innovation tokens' for practices than for technology. The post further subdivides technology into 'material' (core infrastructure, databases, code) and 'tools' (editors, scripts), arguing tools are easier to replace and thus warrant more experimentation. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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