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Yup. The logistics startup I joined nearly 7 years ago should have done the same. A single VM of say 4 cores and 8 gigs of memory and about 100G of disk would h
by gigatexal 3y ago
Yup. The logistics startup I joined nearly 7 years ago should have done the same. A single VM of say 4 cores and 8 gigs of memory and about 100G of disk would have been plenty for our proposed PoC and it should have run as a monolith. That’s what I would do had I to do it again. Instead what we did was what I call HN driven development: k8s, microservices, cloud. 7 or so months after I joined and on my way out we had nothing to show for it except for a really strong and capable front end dev who was basically faking functionality to appease investors because we the backend folks were so incompetent. (Man I sure have come a long way from those days. I was dumber then. I’m still dumb now — just not as much.)
- throwaway2990 3y agoHN driven development! It’s so true.
- plugin-baby 3y ago> what I call HN driven development: k8s, microservices, cloud I’ll give you cloud, but my takeaways from HN in the last few years have been things like: * Postgres is a reasonable choice for a job queue * SQLite is a valid choice for server db at quite large scale * k8s makes sense once you have 50+ devs * microservices address issues of team scale, not traffic scale
- plugin-baby 3y ago+ https://boringtechnology.club/ https://boringtechnology.club/
- gigatexal 3y agoBack in 2017 I think k8s was all the rage and all of us were reading it on HN I think. But what I, too, have seen is a greater emphasis on the boring, simple tools here on HN and I love that given all the experience and PTSD from the startup.