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Thanks for sharing your experience. Somehow makes me think for this web stuff just use a well established glue language / toolkit with a huge and thriving comm

Thanks for sharing your experience. Somehow makes me think for this web stuff just use a well established glue language / toolkit with a huge and thriving community, e.g. like you mentioned RoR, Flask or even Laravel ;) - which lets you focus more on building your solution for your business problem. And for certain things where it's niche, e.g. you need real time with hundreds of thousands of nodes, self healing etc features, use Elixir with BEAM.

nickjj 3y ago
No problem. Yep your comment sums it up well. Although Kubernetes does allow you to horizontally scale decently well with any tech stack. I've run a few Flask + Celery apps (replace that with Rails + Sidekiq or whatever your preferred stack is) on Kubernetes and it's working out quite nicely. Zero downtime deploys (and even node upgrades) with a deployment model that makes sense for individuals and large teams (gitops philosophy using well supported tools like Argo CD, etc.). For things that don't need that scale, a single server with Docker Compose does the trick. I've been doing that for about 8 years now with Docker and Ansible. ~20 lines of YAML configuration to get a machine from ground zero to fully up and running, secured and serving any Dockerized app of your choosing over a custom domain with SSL with automated DB backups, monitoring, logging, etc..