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I don’t consider this a micro-optimization. My customer profile at the time was mom-and-pop small businesses. Bespoke application development that automated ba
by r3trohack3r 2y ago
I don’t consider this a micro-optimization.
My customer profile at the time was mom-and-pop small businesses. Bespoke application development that automated back office work delivered on ~6week timeline.
The size of their tech department was 0.
The goal with the architecture I delivered was to delegate as much as possible below a vendor boundary.
My solution was:
Cloudflare workers for compute.
R2 for storage.
Neon for database. HTML/JS/CSS for the frontend.
Neon wasn’t a micro-optimization. It was the only vendor in town that would own that much of the DB layer’s responsibility (D2 wasn’t prod ready yet).
12months in and so far so good. I’ve had to “come back in” for a total of 30minutes of maintenance when mobile Chrome broke uploading a photo via camera.
- dewey 2y ago> The size of their tech department was 0. Wouldn‘t you want the most boring solution that‘s unlikely to change in the next 5 years for this use case? (AWS etc.) With a company that did a big funding round it‘s very likely that it gets acquired, shut-down, products get sunsetted, API endpoints need to be changed in the next years.