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tl;dr: the best kind of software is no software at all.
by ryukoposting 3y ago
tl;dr: the best kind of software is no software at all.
- nonethewiser 3y agoCase in point: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.
- morkalork 3y agoWith tools like zapier and fivetran, you can build out a mini backend and data pipeline without having to think about servers or software.
- lifechoseme123 3y agoBut... you do have to think about subscription fees and vendor lock-in. I can boot a Ubuntu server for $6/mo for small sites/apps/data projects. No lock in.
- morkalork 3y agoFor an early stage start-up I don't believe that matters. If you have success after the first couple of years, you have the luxury of time to decide what gets built to replace it. If you don't, well, at least you didn't waste time on code that wasn't the core of your business.
- scarface_74 3y agoYou’re always locked into your infrastructure at any type of scale. I’ve worked with large VM migrations that took a year to migrate and still had issues. That being said, I’m not going to base my entire company’s infrastructure on a small vendor that may not be around or for that matter anything that Google says is the next big thing.
- ryukoposting 3y agoAnd so begins an interesting philosophical conversation: is that actually less software, or is that more software pretending to be less software? I lean towards the latter, given past nightmares working with tools from the "we hide all the code behind a dank web UI" genre.
- jan_Sate 3y agoThis. Software are there to solve problem. Not to create more problems. If there's a problem, try figuring out a way to solve it without software first. Only use software as the last resort.