while i absolutely agree about that being a good stack, the ask was for SIMPLE * Sinatra, is orders of magnitude simpler than Rails * The command line interfa

while i absolutely agree about that being a good stack, the ask was for SIMPLE * Sinatra, is orders of magnitude simpler than Rails * The command line interface of MySQL is orders of magnitude simpler than PostgreSQL (think "SHOW TABLES" vs. "\dt") * Installing SQLite is easier than PostgreSQL OR MySQL. * Cloudflare is completely unnecessary complexity. Yes it's a valuable service, but most webapps will never need it, and it can be added on later. There are many things that experienced developers come to do without thinking. This doesn't mean they're simple. This usually just means we've memorized how to do the hard bits without worry.