One thing I don't see mentioned is: why are people not honest with themselves?
We're using hyper-scalable databases, "serverless", layers upon layers of caching, microservices with dozens upon dozens of interconnects, all built out from the start for the odd chance that the thing we build will be the next unicorn startup.
But what is the reality? Many fail before the tech stack ever becomes a bottleneck and those who do not fail rarely reach the scale that requires the absurdities we use today.
A good old LAMP stack on a decent dedicated server is, honestly, way more than enough for 99.9% of startups and doesn't need highly expensive dedicated AWS and other specialists to get up and running in nearly no time.
We're using hyper-scalable databases, "serverless", layers upon layers of caching, microservices with dozens upon dozens of interconnects, all built out from the start for the odd chance that the thing we build will be the next unicorn startup.
But what is the reality? Many fail before the tech stack ever becomes a bottleneck and those who do not fail rarely reach the scale that requires the absurdities we use today.
A good old LAMP stack on a decent dedicated server is, honestly, way more than enough for 99.9% of startups and doesn't need highly expensive dedicated AWS and other specialists to get up and running in nearly no time.