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by f1shy 975 days ago
For me single binary website is like single line program. You can do it, but will not be the most scalable thing. I like to have separate things independent: server and content; so I can switch any of the 2 at whim.

As said before BTW the format in Mobile is horrible!

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I work as an external examiner for CS students from time to time and I always find it sort of humorous when they draw the topic on decoupled architecture. Not because the theory is wrong in any sense, but because I’ve never seen it used the way that it is taught. I bring this up because your “switch any of the two at a whim” sort of caught my interest. When would you ever want to switch your content?

Don’t get me wrong I would absolutely separate my content and my “webserver” but I suspect from the cron job that the author has done so. A single binary doesn’t mean single file.