Unless you make a technology decision without understanding what you need to make it work.

... which is why any company with an "Architecture Group" has lost its way. When you have a small group that is rewarded with the job of playing around with new technologies and pushing them to the rank and file to implement, bad technical decisions will follow.

(I have a rant for the "Scrum Group", aka "the Agile Police", but I'll save it for another opportunity)

My point was, sometimes you, as the the person who needs to make it work, weren't the one that chose what to use. You have a job, to use this tool for this task. Do what you can.