alt Hacker NewsIf this sounds like basic advice, consider there are a lot of people out there that believe they have to start with serverless, kubernetes, fleets of servers, planet-scale databases, multi-zone high-availability setups, and many other "best practices".
Saying "you can just run things on a cheap VPS" sounds amateurish: people are immediately out with "Yeah but scaling", "Yeah but high availability", "Yeah but backups", "Yeah but now you have to maintain it" arguments, that are basically regurgitated sales pitches for various cloud platforms. It's learned helplessness.
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And now big tech often doesn't even have the high availability to show for all that complexity.
Apparently the phrase cargo cult software engineering is not common anymore. Explains these things perfectly.
I don't know what to say. People keep saying these engineers exist and here I am not having seen a single, and I follow many indie hackers communities.
“Cloud-native natives” had so much free plans that had no need to understand what a basic app really needs.