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The tweet is over generalizing things. It says "The reality of building web apps ...", but what he really is talking about is building a serious, scalable, prod
by rs186 2y ago
The tweet is over generalizing things. It says "The reality of building web apps ...", but what he really is talking about is building a serious, scalable, production ready web app. Blob storage, email, background jobs, analytics, monitoring? Come on, you are taking about building a web based product that is often managed by several people, and if you are creating something that is serious enough to require analytics, you might as well actually understand what you are doing.
This isn't about what most people consider "web development" or "building web apps", too much a stretch.
- 1970-01-01 2y agoLet's say e-commerce is 25 years old; Serious scaling should be a fundamental feature or available as an 'architecture kit' yet that still doesn't exist. Time after time, its 1. Architecture-via-developer-pet-interests 2. See what happens 3. If it doesn't fall down, begin adding features via above procedure. 4. If features are failing but business is not, hire someone else to begin at 1.
- cheema33 2y ago> Let's say e-commerce is 25 years old It is closer to 35. I know because I was running an e-commerce site in 1993. Yes, you could add items to a shopping cart, place an online order using a credit card back in 1993.
- techpineapple 2y agoCouldn’t you just go like dot net stack on Azure? Or Rails on heroku? I feel like what you’re describing exists but there are trade offs you don’t want to make, or you want to piece together your own thing because it’s cheaper, but for everything but the top say 500 companies an off the shelf solution probably works fine.
- neonsunset 2y ago(for other readers - Azure and .NET are not related (save for Azure using C#, among other languages, for their infrastructure), you can deploy it anywhere)