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> The frontend dev using half of the React ecosystem on a static site + simple form is to blame. I once saw a website that took a full minute to load, and it w
by RandoHolmes 6y ago
> The frontend dev using half of the React ecosystem on a static site + simple form is to blame.
I once saw a website that took a full minute to load, and it was literally a page with images, text overflowing around it, and then some download links. But the way it was built... my god, the way it was built.
That company brought in a new "CTO", and his solution was to dump the entire thing in google cloud. I shit you not, this CTO initially installed an EOL version of PHP, and when errors started happening, he started submitting PR's to revert the PHP code to be compatible with the EOL version of PHP.
Dumpster Fire.
- aogl 6y agoThis is just insane.. yet I completely believe you..
- wolco 6y agoThe question is why did he need that specific php version? Was there something that required it and if so could that be isolated?
- p_l 6y agoThat's what he figured to install, probably... Been there, done that, have scars.
- RandoHolmes 6y agoHis explanation is that's what google cloud defaulted too, although I have a really hard time believing that. I'm more inclined to believe he googled and blindly followed an old guide with an old ppa than I am to believe that google cloud by default installed an EOL PHP server. I'm pretty sure he was a node guy who found himself in the PHP world.