Eric Jeker
ejeker.bsky.social
Eric Jeker
@ejeker.bsky.social
Writer of Code
Make games
Pragmatic Tech, or Boring Stack, is very hard to sell nowadays. It's like every startup needs auto-scaling to infinity from day 1. Only too late they realize their tech is so niche they can't recruit easily.

I love the story of Wave, a good example of pragmatism: www.wave.com/en/blog/simp...
Some benefits of simple software architectures
Wave is a $1.7B company with 70 engineers1 whose product is a CRUD app that adds and subtracts numbers. In keeping with this, our architecture is a standard CRUD app architecture, a Python monolith on...
www.wave.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Thanks for bringing this up. I sent your article to our HR team today as we are 100% remote we are potentially more at risk.
March 13, 2025 at 7:28 AM