Why Senior Engineers Choose Boring Go Over Exciting Rust

How a $3.2M production disaster taught us that technical excellence doesn’t always align with business success — and why boring… Why Senior Engineers Choose Boring Go Over Exciting Rust How a $3.2M production disaster taught us that technical excellence doesn’t always align with business success — and why boring technologies often deliver better outcomes Senior engineers learn that the most technically impressive solution isn’t always the best business decision — sometimes the boring path delivers better outcomes with less risk. The $3.2M Lesson in Technology Choices Our startup had raised Series B funding and needed to scale our API from 1,000 to 100,000 requests per second. The team was excited: finally, a greenfield project where we could use Rust, the language everyone wanted on their resume. Rust had been voted the most admired programming language for 8+ years in a row, and the performance benefits were undeniable. Follow me for more Go/Rust performance insights Six months later,