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Fully agree and endorse. But my point is... those are all web applications too, and they don't have the option of outsourcing everything. Someone has to build
by jameshart 3y ago
Fully agree and endorse.
But my point is... those are all web applications too, and they don't have the option of outsourcing everything. Someone has to build a system that does more than just serve static files.
The claim that 'the majority of web applications can run on a single server' is kind of belied by the example of a site where not even the majority of sub-applications that are required to provide the full functionality of the system are running on a single server.
- acabal 3y agoOf course! Stripe, Paypal, Postmark/Sendgrid/whatever are not part of the majority I'm talking about. (Although Fractured Atlas, which is merely a wrapper for the Stripe API, is; we use it because it solves a people problem, not a technical one.) There are certainly projects and businesses that will require many high-power servers and more complex technical machinery than basic LAMP. However most people on HN are not developing the next Stripe, even if they don't realize it yet.