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by ecshafer
1107 days ago
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With so many developers I feel that there is a complete lack of familiarity with what it takes to just run a website. So many came up in the land of cloud and k8s and etc. There are use cases for these more advanced production environments. But if more developers just learned how to make a website on linux, with a db, a webserver, and an application. They would know that a lot of more complex things just aren't needed... especially when you don't even have customers. |
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If you're outsourcing operations to AWS or whomever, a couple largish instances and a couple supporting services can get you pretty much that same thing, for a bit more money and a bit less control over performance-consistency.
All that HA/scaling/clustering/cloud stuff is expensive, not just in monetary terms, but in performance terms. If you don't actually need it, a high percentage of your compute & (especially) your network traffic may be going to that, rather than actually serving the product. It also adds a hell of a lot of complexity, which comes at a significant time-cost for development, unless you want your defect rate to shoot up.
> But if more developers just learned how to make a website on linux, with a db, a webserver, and an application.
And hell, nothing's stopping you from writing 12-factor apps and deploying containers, and scripting your server set-up and config, even if you don't go straight for heavy, "scalable" architecture. Even if your server's a beige Linux box in a closet. Enough benefits that the effort's probably a wash at worst (hey, documentation you can execute is the best documentation!) even if you never need to switch architectures, and then you'll have a relatively easy time of it, if you do end up needing to.