You could start slowly teaching yourself more about new technologies, but try and become even more an expert on the stuff you already know.<p>Perl and MySQL are strong choices and there must be a lot of big companies out there who still use them because it works for them. Startups always want the cutting-edge technology (NoSQL), but sometimes a good old RDBMS like MySQL is the way to go.<p>Inspired by: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10084449" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10084449</a>