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0 pointscarterehsmith9y ago0 comments

Not sure what your point is.

There is like 10 million people around that shipped a web app.

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mcfunley9y ago· 1 in thread

Ok, I'll give you a serious answer. For an individual shipping a website, anything at all works. I'd guess that half of all websites that have existed are just a single person editing files directly on a webserver without source control, and that's fine.

It's another matter altogether to ship code with tens of thousands of requests per second and a lot of teammates trying to change it simultaneously.

carterehsmithOP9y ago

>> ship code with tens of thousands of requests per second

Define "request"

If the "request" is to deliver some static file, that has been solved many years ago with CDNs and server caches and so on.

If the "request" is to do something other than static files, it has nothing to do with Web. It could be request to your bank's COBOL app or a request to their Java app or to their Node.js app. Nothing to do with Web.

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