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What the parent and original post seem to be implying is that simplicity, efficiency, tech stack (or lack there of), isn't what drives success in a business, it
by jermaustin1 6y ago
What the parent and original post seem to be implying is that simplicity, efficiency, tech stack (or lack there of), isn't what drives success in a business, it is instead the customers paying.
Sure having a modern infrastructure that is able to process thousands of requests per second is better than something that can only do a few hundred, but if you strip out a bunch of excess requests, you will process less per user, and thus reach the same level of scale on a less efficient stack.
- madamelic 6y agoAnd save money + time. The most important part is people paying you money. Modern startup culture is full of inefficiencies + silly trappings (nice offices, drive to hire people, make things more complex, take more money from investors to stave off figuring out taking money from customers)
- jermaustin1 6y ago100%. Shameless Plug - In fact, I'm currently building an "inefficient," "micro" web framework specifically so I can build more stuff, more quickly [1]. An entire app can be build in a single js file (with only one dependency... and it's 150 or so dependencies and sub dependencies). 1: https://github.com/jeremyaboyd/simplemvcjs https://github.com/jeremyaboyd/simplemvcjs
- xchaotic 6y agoInteresting but the way you phrased it, doesn’t sell it particularly well - it seems to simply hide the underlying dependency complexity a few layers below. It’s still a node.js app with all the pros and cons of npm etc.