rybit

4 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by rybit 10y ago

   +1 on screw the absolutely necessary caching. :) I couldn't agree with too much tooling can abstract what is usually simple - just serve some HTML. I think that the whole API economy and saas/paas stuff really has to be evaluated
2. 2.▲
   by rybit 10y ago

   Absolutely you can solve this all with your own code. It is totally reasonable. But it is your own code. Which means dev cost & maintenance. Hence there are services for it. Could you set up your own DB? rack and stack your own servers?
3. 3.▲
   by rybit 10y ago

   So static sites really have come a long way from the 1994 geocities versions. There are people that statically build sites with 1000's of pages. The idea is that you don't need to have the whole backend that we've all built b