If I look at the last two, it was 6 month and 9 month. The first one was initially thought to be just another search engine for some of the company's content. Then it got transformed into the main data store including CMS and all those nicetees. In the end, 7 people worked on it.
The second one was a tool used only internally by my customer's employees. They then sold the idea to some of their customers and it had to transform into a full fledged product. 4 people are now in charge of it.
I am still coming back to projects sometimes where I didn't do this and I hate every minute hacking on them -.- 'Wish I would have just used React or whatever' are often my thoughts then :-)
How are those big projects? Why would you need any scalability for that?
From what you just said they're running for, at most, a few thousand people.
In terms of loads/numbers/etc. that's child's play and definitely not "huge applications". The kind of decisions he's talking about are for things with thousands of concurrent users per second, not per day.
That kind of stuff could be dealt with a single desktop computer running PHP and mysql. And you definitely don't need microservices.
In my experience, having worked in both enterprise and consumer startups, enterprise is shallow but broad with little need for any of the complicated stuff and more need to make the code really simple, obvious and uncomplex because it ends up dealing with so many different problems, while consumer scale is where you start needing to get a bit fancy purely because of scale, but it only deals with a couple of problems.
mpfundstein|8 years ago
I am still coming back to projects sometimes where I didn't do this and I hate every minute hacking on them -.- 'Wish I would have just used React or whatever' are often my thoughts then :-)
mattmanser|8 years ago
From what you just said they're running for, at most, a few thousand people.
In terms of loads/numbers/etc. that's child's play and definitely not "huge applications". The kind of decisions he's talking about are for things with thousands of concurrent users per second, not per day.
That kind of stuff could be dealt with a single desktop computer running PHP and mysql. And you definitely don't need microservices.
In my experience, having worked in both enterprise and consumer startups, enterprise is shallow but broad with little need for any of the complicated stuff and more need to make the code really simple, obvious and uncomplex because it ends up dealing with so many different problems, while consumer scale is where you start needing to get a bit fancy purely because of scale, but it only deals with a couple of problems.