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Any working solution actually has thousands of components. I'd defend this particular Rube Goldberg machine by pointing out that 99% of the time, none of my co

by jimpick 10y ago

Any working solution actually has thousands of components. I'd defend this particular Rube Goldberg machine by pointing out that 99% of the time, none of my code is running on the server side - it's all Amazon S3. The only time my code runs in the cloud is when a comment gets submitted. I'd argue that it's pretty easy to reason about. I've got some more blog posts coming. :-)

bikamonki 10y ago
Don't get me wrong, what you've done is how we will build web stack solutions from now on: orchestrated microservices. My hopefully constructive critique is that as engineers we ought to find the best solution for a given problem, even at the expense of such solution not being universal. Take the myriad of tiny to medium websites that use WP, it is like renting an 18-wheeler to move one tiny box. The engineered correct solution would be a static site. Now, for a site with just a handful of posts and comments we should think of a much simpler solution for comments persistence. In fact, after reading about your software I am inspired to think and try to come up with such solution, let's see :)