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Is anyone else the backend version of this? Instead of using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, etc. write your own bash scripts to provision servers, deploy code, etc.
by AznHisoka 8y ago
Is anyone else the backend version of this? Instead of using Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, etc. write your own bash scripts to provision servers, deploy code, etc.
Instead of using fancy monitoring frameworks, just have a cron job that SSH into all your servers, and send an email if disk or memory usage spikes too high.
- mholt 8y agoYes, I'm also like that with backend development. I write simple Go programs and bash scripts to provision all my infrastructure. Love it.
- j45 8y agoLots of people are the backend version of this. And the front end. In one person. If you add the backend skills above to the original post... It's what a full-stack developer originally was, and in my mind still is. These folks can imagine a bug, features and architecture from different breadths and depths.
- ams6110 8y ago> write your own bash scripts I used to do that, still do once in a while, but I find Ansible to be much better for provisioning and configuring things. I rarely use modules that are not part of the base install; in fact at present I am not using any that aren't standard. I feel my playbooks are simplistic compared to what I see others doing, but they work for me. The idempotency and error checking that Ansible provides are well beyond what I feel is worth rolling by hand, so it's a good tradeoff. I can still write simple things that I understand.
- bigato 8y agoI could say I am, except that I just use plain sh running under openbsd instead. Not only for web stuff, but I also use simple unix tools a lot to process data - a lot simpler and most of the time it's even faster than using SQL or so-called "big-data" tools.