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billfruit | 3 months ago

I feel much of the knowledge and experience in the industry is simply lost because it isn't widely documented and studied. There needs to be detailed histories of major software development projects from the industry, in book form for people to learn from, in the same way as histories of military campaigns and railway projects.

It not widely done, and we end up with mere "Software Archeology", where we have artefacts like code, but the entire human process of why and how it reached that form left unknown.

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zwnow|3 months ago

This is actually one of the things I struggle with the most. Even small scale apps are mysterious to me, I have no idea how to build, deploy and maintain an app correctly.

For context, I work for a startup as solo dev and I manage 5 projects ranging from mobile to fullstack apps.

I am completely overwhelmed because there basically does not exist any clear answer to this. Some go all in on cloud or managed infra but I am not rich so I'd highly prefer cheap deployment/hosting. Next issue that idk how to fix is scaling the app. I find myself being stuck while building a ton as well, because there are WAY too many attack vectors in web development idk how to properly protect from.

Doesn't help not having any kind of mentor either. Thus far the apps I've built run fine considering I only have like 30-40 users max. But my boss wants to scale and I think itll doom the projects.

I'd wish there were actual standards making web safe without requiring third party infra for auth for example. It should be way easier for people to build web apps in a secure way.

It got to a point of me not wanting to build web stuff anymore because rather than building features I have to think about attack vectors, scaling issues, dependency issues, legacy code. It makes me regret joining the industry tbh.

datadrivenangel|3 months ago

You can load test! Make another copy of the app in a copy of your prod environment and then call it until it breaks!

Also look at the 12 factor app [0] and the DORA capabilities [1].

0 - https://12factor.net/ 1 - https://dora.dev/capabilities/

pajamasam|3 months ago

Agreed. I really appreciate the documentaries by CultRepo and the "Architecture of Open Source Applications" books, but there's still a ton of info that hasn't been documented. Some of the FAANG blog posts also help, but they're usually very scant on details.

tayo42|3 months ago

People (and companies) need to be incentived some how to write and share.