> There is this moronic obsession with "scaling" in this industry, and it just blows my mind. You can have a wildly successful and profitable company while ser

> There is this moronic obsession with "scaling" in this industry, and it just blows my mind. You can have a wildly successful and profitable company while serving just a few hundred customers that requires nothing more than a basic LAMP stack. This is us. We have a couple thousand customers in a B2B space with large revenue per customer. Growing rapidly and our node.js stack is running on a tiny EC2 instance and RDS server. I spent a lot of time in the last couple years trying to fight back against attempts to overcomplicate this by using new services & new tooling. I just see it all as stuff that's going to slow down the single most important thing to us from a business perspective - which is writing new features to optimise our internal workflows - and give us more headaches from an operational perspective. Even the stack we're using feels ridiculously over the top and complicated compared to a basic LAMP application. Everything in node.js feels like a huge pain in the ass. If there's not a node module you can install to immediately solve your problem (which of course just adds a different set of problems) even writing basic things feels exceptionally arcane and time consuming compared to a basic PHP implementation of the same thing. Maybe it's just a side effect of our dev team size (currently very small, only five full time devs) but the overhead of it all just feels like it's not worth it.