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I feel like an idiot reading these kinds of posts. If this is a “simple” stack, then I’ll be jiggered. Why do you need a “control plane” like ZeroTier? What pro

I feel like an idiot reading these kinds of posts. If this is a “simple” stack, then I’ll be jiggered. Why do you need a “control plane” like ZeroTier? What problem does it solve? Certainly not a problem I've ever had. And I have a real SaaS business which people pay real money for. I've been developing enterprise SaaS for 10 years. My go to stack for small projects where scale is not an issue is Laravel, Laravel Forge for deployment, Vue or jQuery for interactivity, SQLite for database, Redis for cache/queue and...that’s it. No Docker (because Laravel has a super simple dev environment setup with Valet), not a single YAML configuration file to be found anywhere, and this kind of setup on a single $20 DigitalOcean server can literally serve 100k users without a hitch. How many apps have more than 100k users?

mixmastamyk 6y ago
The explosion in stack choices means no one can know them all. Also, even simple apps can have one or two areas where things get a bit complicated. "Simple" is relative and inadvertently implies things the author is familiar with. I'd guess sqlite (for example) is fine for very simple apps with one user at a time, but that bar is pretty low. Yaml itself is not an issue, and intercooler/htmx is simpler than your JS picks. shrug