How do I get over a boring tech stack at work?

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I have a job where I am actually making a positive impact on the world.However I also work with the most boring tech stack in the world:- ASP.NET MVC 5, Entity Framework 6 and some ASP.NET Web API 2- jQuery/Bootstrap on the frontend- Our "DevOps" is an Azure VM running Windows Server 2012 and automated with PowerShellOur Azure bill now cost as much as an average European developer. That is absurd for a business with less than 250 paying customers. The main reason is a slow horrific monolith.Should I look for a new job? I live in a small European country. Even the slow-moving sectors like banks have embraced microservices/Kubernetes on the backend and SPAs on the frontend. I fear I am slowly becoming a dinosaur. I used to think dinosaurs only worked in banks.

dvaun · Accepted Answer

I too work with similar tech. It "just works" and fulfills requirements.
> Our Azure bill now cost as much as an average European developer.
> The main reason is a slow horrific monolith.
Would changing the tech either improve revenue and/or reduce costs? That is how I would suggest changes (if it applied where I work)
Edit: On the topic of working with boring/old tech...one thing that I've been doing is learning more of the internals of the environment I'm working in. For example, with C#, I've decompiled libraries and read through source code to learn new APIs and how some important functions are implemented (e.g. Crypt32 API).
I'm not sure if that would be interesting or if you would consider it a good use of your time.

whb07 · Answer

Ask if you can start writing in F#. That should keep you entertained and trying out a new paradigm. Helps that you can import/work directly into top of .net

throwaway189262 · Answer

That stack shouldn't be slow unless the code is horrible. Especially if you migrate it to .NET core.We used to run ASP.NET MVC apps on the smallest VM's on Azure and they could still handle a lot of traffic