Think about it this way, every line of code you write will become obsolete one day (e.g. business will change or new version of the language comes out). Every e

Think about it this way, every line of code you write will become obsolete one day (e.g. business will change or new version of the language comes out). Every external dependency, where you deploy, how you deploy, the OS where you host the application, even how the user consumes your application will change. So to avoid any maintenance, minimize - code, complexity and all dependency and use a language and platform that can last a few years. Essentially, in today's world this will be very difficult and doing this will also cost you development time, there is no easy way around it. For example, you can build your whole app in Clojure, which is rock solid and stable, but even then you will have to patch the OS, JVM, DB etc. With traffic changes you will have to scale up / down.