I would like to throw my 2 cents in that some of these advances around "new" ways do lead to some good things. The focus on service discovery is something that is incredibly helpful even for older technologies.
Consul is something you can add to even a very old application and give it modern scaling features, simply because it has a plain old DNS interface.
Redis is similar for caching, it's advanced, the interface is so simple to use, and it's so easy to deploy and manage.
On the flip side, I'd like to add that I worked for a startup and we chose a lot of boring technologies because we had a job to get done, and they all just worked. :)
Consul is something you can add to even a very old application and give it modern scaling features, simply because it has a plain old DNS interface.
Redis is similar for caching, it's advanced, the interface is so simple to use, and it's so easy to deploy and manage.
On the flip side, I'd like to add that I worked for a startup and we chose a lot of boring technologies because we had a job to get done, and they all just worked. :)