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by iLoveOncall 1253 days ago
> - your product is slow, so they assume it's crap and leave your site

I don't think there any tech stack that will have any significant (or even just measurable) impact the speed of the product, for 99% of the startups.

> - your product breaks, no one notices or fixes it

This has nothing to do with the tech stack. You can setup monitoring, alarms and metrics for any tech stack.

> - your product is bad, because your wrote it in a boring technology like cobol and therefore couldn't access the best developers.

99% of startups won't be able to afford the best developers anyway. 99% of startups don't need the best developers. Average developers can make great products.

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You are taking "your tech stack does not matter" and twist it into "You will have problems if you have the worst tech stack and the worst developers!". Cool, but that's not what the article is about.
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habitue 1253 days ago
> your tech stack does not matter

> You will have problems if you have the worst tech stack

Cool, so we've established that I'm saying the tech stack matters. All of the problems above have to do with the tech stack. Yes performance is part of your tech stack. Yes, how easily you can monitor it and is part of your tech stack.

> 99% of startups won't be able to afford the best developers anyway. 99% of startups don't need the best developers. Average developers can make great products.

Here again, the tech stack matters. If you have known mediocre developers, you should pick a language like Java or Go because otherwise it's going to be a mess. If you have good developers, you should trust them to pick the technologies.

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iLoveOncall 1253 days ago
> Cool, so we've established that I'm saying the tech stack matters.

Yes, and I'm telling you that all the problems you've raised are not dependent on your tech stack.

To make it clearer, it doesn't matter if you use CloudWatch Metrics or if you publish your metrics manually in an Excel file, as long as you have metrics being looked at.

"Having metrics" is not a part of your technical stack.

Similarly for speed, it doesn't matter if you use C or Python, as long as you write efficient algorithms and choose the right datastructure.

"Writing efficient algorithms and choosing the right datastructure" is not a part of your technical stack.

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