Joel on Software - Lord Palmerston on Programming In a way this is right on the money. Minimize your risks by sticking to what you know, otherwise get people on board who know what they're talking about before starting on with an alien tech on your project. Understanding a tech is not about reading one book, you to have felt the pains of going through a few cycles before it becomes a mastered domain. At the end of the day there is no way around this complexity, we build abstractions on top of abstractions.