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I'm one guy with a 7-figure ARR business. My tech is Stripe, Apache, Ruby CGI and CSV. Literally my database is a CSV file. Maybe that's too boring. But I spen

I'm one guy with a 7-figure ARR business. My tech is Stripe, Apache, Ruby CGI and CSV. Literally my database is a CSV file. Maybe that's too boring. But I spend about 10 hours a year maintaining it. The bulk of my devops this year was moving to Let's Encrypt.

dgb23 5y ago
Actually I find the CSV „db“ idea rather exciting. Too exciting for my taste!
omneity 5y ago
Why not SQLite which is even more boring and comes with better guarantees?
- tehjoker 5y ago
  My guess is that he does a lot of manual editing of entries which is fast in a text editor and somewhat annoying to form SQL statements to do.
  - Sammi 5y ago
    There are lots of guis that make editing a sqlite db almost as easy as editing a spreadsheet.
    - tehjoker 5y ago
      Didn't know about that, thanks! Might use some in my own work.
      - Sammi 5y ago
        A sqlite db is just a file. So at that level it is exactly like a spreadsheet. It's just a much more powerful storage format. But for the app opening it it can be presented much like a spreadsheet.
- mperham 5y ago
  I do'nt need those guarantees. It's one more thing to upgrade. vi is my DB editor.
  - nerdponx 5y ago
    Honestly, at that point I'd rather use Excel / LibreCalc.
eatYourFood 5y ago
What’s your business?
- ch4s3 5y ago
  His business is sidekiq[1] and Faktory... [1] https://sidekiq.org/products/enterprise.html https://sidekiq.org/products/enterprise.html [2] https://contribsys.com/faktory/ https://contribsys.com/faktory/