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Frankly, ageism in tech is real. They rather hire some younger guy without personal commitments (aka family). Sure, it’s changed in the past decade but I see it

by lvl102 5y ago

Frankly, ageism in tech is real. They rather hire some younger guy without personal commitments (aka family). Sure, it’s changed in the past decade but I see it playing out all the time. Once you hit 40s and you have domain knowledge (and bank account) you are better off building your own thing. And to be honest, building anything below a few hundred thousand user base is not that hard at all and pretty much streamlined enough for one person to excute in 2022.

subw00f 5y ago
>streamlined enough for one person to excute in 2022. How so? I would like to know such streamline processes.
- dolni 5y ago
  If you have a basic idea of how high availability apps and databases work and you write code that isn't woefully inefficient, it's trivial. Lambda scales pretty much infinitely. EC2 autoscaling instances behind a load balancer provide a ton of horsepower. Throw in a CDN where it is appropriate. Some of those terms are AWS specific but you can do the same on other providers. Even basic configurations of old school relational databases can scale up pretty darn far before you have to worry about them.
- y04nn 5y ago
  Building it is the easy part, finding the few hundred thousand users is most likely the hard part.
- exdsq 5y ago
  Honestly Django or Rails with a few ‘Top 10 Performance Optimizations’ blog tips will get you most of the way there - certainly beyond proof of market fit and an initial investment round or two. Stick it in a docker container on ECS and configure it to have two instances with a load balancer for redundancies/upgrades. I worked for a startup that got acquired with literally just this style of stack and two or three engineers.
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checker659 5y ago
A few hundred thousand paying customers?
tonyedgecombe 5y ago
>They rather hire some younger guy without personal commitments (aka family). The funny thing is my family demands were highest when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. Once kids can wipe their own backside, sleep through the night and attend school everything gets a bit easier. By the time people get to their fifties their kids are usually well on the way to becoming adults.

by lvl102 5y ago

subw00f 5y ago

>streamlined enough for one person to excute in 2022. How so? I would like to know such streamline processes.

dolni 5y ago
If you have a basic idea of how high availability apps and databases work and you write code that isn't woefully inefficient, it's trivial. Lambda scales pretty much infinitely. EC2 autoscaling instances behind a load balancer provide a ton of horsepower. Throw in a CDN where it is appropriate. Some of those terms are AWS specific but you can do the same on other providers. Even basic configurations of old school relational databases can scale up pretty darn far before you have to worry about them.
y04nn 5y ago
Building it is the easy part, finding the few hundred thousand users is most likely the hard part.
exdsq 5y ago
Honestly Django or Rails with a few ‘Top 10 Performance Optimizations’ blog tips will get you most of the way there - certainly beyond proof of market fit and an initial investment round or two. Stick it in a docker container on ECS and configure it to have two instances with a load balancer for redundancies/upgrades. I worked for a startup that got acquired with literally just this style of stack and two or three engineers.

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checker659 5y ago

A few hundred thousand paying customers?

tonyedgecombe 5y ago

>They rather hire some younger guy without personal commitments (aka family). The funny thing is my family demands were highest when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. Once kids can wipe their own backside, sleep through the night and attend school everything gets a bit easier. By the time people get to their fifties their kids are usually well on the way to becoming adults.