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Anytime you see anyone post something like "THIS Is How You Do The Thing", it should automatically be ignored. This article is no exception.
The author is making a big deal about a team of 40 people and "millions of customers"...k.
Not sure if anyone is supposed to be impressed by that, but the titular argument here isn't a position for a small team and product, it's making the case that "ALL THINGS EVERYWHERE ARE TOO COMPLICATED IN PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS", which is just an ignorant position to take.
If this had come with some sort of metrics, tools, or workflow to back up the claim, then it would be worth reading. Nothing like that here. This is just an inexperienced person's boasting rant with zero elaboration about what actually works for them, why, or suggestions for others facing some sort of similar situation.
There is no content here, just time wasted.
Hi friend, this was just meant to be an introduction, as I get started blogging and sharing back some knowledge and lessons I learned along the way. I've never written a blog before (or much of anything!), and I'm sorry you didn't find value in this.
I wasn't intending to boast, but I can see how it came across. I just meant to say, "companies are trying to tell you that you need 'XYZ' to scale," and at least at the size of business I ran, you didn't need any fancy tech at all -- we could have made do with a dead-simple setup: a single server running Go and SQLite. It's something I wish I had known when I started.
I'll take your feedback to heart and try to produce larger, more substantial posts to follow. Thanks for commenting.
Well, apologies for being bluntly critical. I can offer a few constructive tips to help with writing about technical topics:
I can offer some constructive tips to you as well: dont speak for all of us.
I liked the article. I didn't interpret it as "everyone must do what I say". It was simply a viewpoint from a person on the internet. That is what a blog is.
The complexity of tech stacks have increased enormously in the last 10 years, and it's only sane to see what tradeoffs we are making to be able to scale easily. Perhaps it's not worth the trouble for 90% of us. If we follow best practice from cloud providers without thinking for ourselves, we will not learn to think for ourselves either.
So let's do that. Let's think, wrote blogs, discuss, and allow for discussions. Don't shut people down.
Wow, nobody should ever say anything then unless they're on the right side of everyone else's opinion or else they might be speaking for everyone. Great tip.
You just criticized the OP for the exact same thing.
I criticized the WRITING of what turned out to be the OP for not having any content in their posted piece aside from a complaint about something. Never said he was wrong to feel how we feels about whatever.
It was clearly a setup for more content to come...