[wackget]

How many users does this website have? It must be relatively tiny.

Why the hell is this anywhere near AWS, or Terraform, or any other PaaS nonsense? I'd wager this thing could be run off a $5 VPS with 30 minutes of setup.

[gdulli]

Overengineering won. That's not going to go well when paired with the new best practice of not actually learning your tools because the AI will take care of it.

[siim_osur]

You do it once and then you no longer work there.

[nine_k]

Isn't it a good way to play with all these in a relatively safe way, but still with nonzero stakes?

[dzonga]

could have been on sqlite -- backups in s3 or equivalent object storage

but let's over-engineer

[dmix]

terraform is 100% overengineering for some hobby projects

[paulddraper]

So…the less crucial the system, the closer to the metal?