[bikamonki]

99% of real-world apps out there could be implemented with a BAAS and some simple JS MVC framework (good ol' BackboneJS in my flavor, if not jQuery fancy). I am not talking about building million-user-base facebooks and twitters, I am taking about a fuckzillion apps with a dozen at best concurrent users that will thrive in Firebase's free tier, a damnzillion worpress sites that never-fucking-ever get updated and would do just fine with good ol' static html, forever spared from bitcoin ramsomware.

Simply put: we forgot how to be engineers (the right solution for the problem). We are all Zuckergified into the fucking hype. Aren't we? We forgot that it is WE the experts that should tell clients how to solve their damn problems not just echo some buzz words so we get the damn contracts.

This post is NOT satire. It is the very state of current affairs.

[seanp2k2]

FWIW the Wordpress situation and specifically my personal site getting hacked even though I was a sysadmin working in hosting at the time are why I love static site generators. Moveable Type was always amazing and scaled with traffic literally 100x as well as Wordpress out of the box (Varnish and W3 Total Cache can help if you ever need it, but again "out of the box"), so I'm happy to see that things like Jekyll and Hugo are trendy. The fundamental idea behind SSGs just makes so much sense to me; optimize it for viewing (in terms of computational power spent on serving traffic), which it'll be doing many more times than it will be created. Why generate a page on each visit when that page will be exactly the same until the post gets updated? I understand that many WP sites are much much much more than blogs (like shopping carts, ooh god why), but that's a different conversation entirely.

Wordpress (and any dynamic CMS) is like having a library full of whiteboards with the contents of the books written on them, with about the same potential for vandalism.