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Yes, of course. You are right and I don't mean to be overly dismissive of them; I applaud their philosophy and mission, and they shipped something many people l
by isoprophlex 2y ago
Yes, of course. You are right and I don't mean to be overly dismissive of them; I applaud their philosophy and mission, and they shipped something many people loved.
Just... this comes from some personal lament. Computers are so wonderful. In the time between a photon emerging from your ceiling lamp and hitting the floor, you can crank out 20-30 CPU cycles.
Yet an entire breed of developers has been raised to see 2000$/month Postgres RDS on AWS as "the cost of doing business". I wish costs wouldn't hold back great things like this that the internet needs.
- ToucanLoucan 2y agoThe "web scale" brain rot runs deep. Every project I've done has been PHP, MySQL and JavaScript. I've built software solutions for a number of local businesses that are still running years on virtually unchanged because I just used simple tools, simply. No, none of my stuff has ever hit millions of users, and I suspect if it tried it would blow apart quite quickly, but none of them ever will come to 1/10th of that, and hot take: that's fine.
- doublepg23 2y agoIve been working in healthcare for a few years now and yeah, most of the stacks I encounter are similarly simple and get by fine while generating millions in revenue.