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I love these stories. I'm a one-person company too: contribsys.com. My production server stack is Apache + some Ruby CGI scripts, to serve static files and han

I love these stories. I'm a one-person company too: contribsys.com. My production server stack is Apache + some Ruby CGI scripts, to serve static files and handle billing webhooks. I spend less than an hour per week on devops maintenance. KISS is the #1 principle when scaling a solo operation.

non-entity 7y ago
> some Ruby CGI scripts Didn't ruby remove its CGI libraries from their standard library somewhat recently. I believe there were mostly helper libs, but I am curious how that works.
- zrail 7y ago
  CGI is just running a program in response to a request. Things about the request are put into environment variables and POST/PUT bodies are on stdin. Your program writes HTTP headers, two newlines, and the response body. You don't need libraries. If you have reasonably low traffic CGI can get you really far.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
    > If you have reasonably low traffic CGI can get you really far. And even after that, I would expect that CGI augmented with some careful caching (read: all static content and some dynamic content with sensible expiration policies) will get you even farther without having to dramatically change anything.
  - cutler 7y ago
    I built an app in Perl/CGI::Application for a company which ran media campaigns with national brands over a 12-year period. It's not the fastest option but it certainly works.
  - jimbokun 7y ago
    This would be a nifty exercise for a web programming class. Really internalize a lot about HTTP in a short amount of time.
- castwide 7y ago
  CGI is still in the stdlib, and AFAIK there's no plan to deprecate it. You might be thinking of a few other methods like URI.escape that have been marked obsolete in favor of CGI equivalents.
ravedave5 7y ago
Hey I thought I recognized that domain, yay sidekiq! Keep up the good work. By the way we're seeing issues with contrast security gem and sidekiq, but we're pushing on contrast not you.
- mperham 7y ago
  Thank you! You are always welcome to open an issue if you want a second opinion.
wenbin 7y ago
Mike! Big fan of yours! For the very few people who don't know mike or sidekiq, read this: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-charging-money-for-pro-features-allowed-me-quit-my-job-6e71309457 https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-charging-money-fo...
dcsan 7y ago
sidekiq! Interesting wenbin also wrote a task queue system... must be something about that type of engineer that leads to this pragmatic tech strategy.
canardlaquay 7y ago
That should have been the real "boring" stack we're talking about here instead of the 20+ technologies mentioned in the OP.

non-entity 7y ago

> some Ruby CGI scripts Didn't ruby remove its CGI libraries from their standard library somewhat recently. I believe there were mostly helper libs, but I am curious how that works.

zrail 7y ago
CGI is just running a program in response to a request. Things about the request are put into environment variables and POST/PUT bodies are on stdin. Your program writes HTTP headers, two newlines, and the response body. You don't need libraries. If you have reasonably low traffic CGI can get you really far.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  > If you have reasonably low traffic CGI can get you really far. And even after that, I would expect that CGI augmented with some careful caching (read: all static content and some dynamic content with sensible expiration policies) will get you even farther without having to dramatically change anything.
- cutler 7y ago
  I built an app in Perl/CGI::Application for a company which ran media campaigns with national brands over a 12-year period. It's not the fastest option but it certainly works.
- jimbokun 7y ago
  This would be a nifty exercise for a web programming class. Really internalize a lot about HTTP in a short amount of time.
castwide 7y ago
CGI is still in the stdlib, and AFAIK there's no plan to deprecate it. You might be thinking of a few other methods like URI.escape that have been marked obsolete in favor of CGI equivalents.

ravedave5 7y ago

Hey I thought I recognized that domain, yay sidekiq! Keep up the good work. By the way we're seeing issues with contrast security gem and sidekiq, but we're pushing on contrast not you.

mperham 7y ago
Thank you! You are always welcome to open an issue if you want a second opinion.

wenbin 7y ago

Mike! Big fan of yours! For the very few people who don't know mike or sidekiq, read this: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-charging-money-for-pro-features-allowed-me-quit-my-job-6e71309457 https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/how-charging-money-fo...

dcsan 7y ago

sidekiq! Interesting wenbin also wrote a task queue system... must be something about that type of engineer that leads to this pragmatic tech strategy.

canardlaquay 7y ago

That should have been the real "boring" stack we're talking about here instead of the 20+ technologies mentioned in the OP.