(Make Elon/Bezos/Zuc/etc Richer)

Why wait? Working at big tech is a bankrolling operation. I show up and collect my dough, nothing less nothing more.

I'm wondering if anyone here is using Node for their production APIs. What is the scaling story like? What about the costs and maintenance involved?

I've got experience with Go and Java, but I've only ever used Node for scripts and super simple internal APIs. I don't have experience with Ruby/Rails nor Django, and used Elixir many years ago and enjoyed it but I'm not sure if I want to invest my time on it.

Interested to hear your thoughts. My biggest pros for Java/Go is that it is tried and tested. I've heard many people use Rails and that it is super fast to build stuff with it. The cons is that it is hard to find people who can use Java/Go well enough, and I've worked on too many projects with spaghetti code and horribly designed architecture. A dynamic language seems easier to refactor or just re-write, compared to these.

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So after I’m done juggling yaml files I want to code and build some cool stuff.

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t really give much of a shit when I’m the only one in this office while the rest of my team is all over the world. And no I’m not going to cater to their needs when it’s outside of my normal hours. Deal with it, else I will (and have).

Why don’t companies just have local teams that are nodes in the broader graph?

A fully local team in California that works on X, and interacts with team Y that’s based in Singapore, and team Z in Europe.

Each team is self sufficient and works on a piece of the work that can be done by them. In conjunction with the other teams, we get global coverage without having some dumb working hours or waste of an office.

I don’t mind going to the office, and having worked as mainly a product engineer I like whiteboarding with our Product manager and other stakeholders, or getting on calls with customers to demo something (team in the same room, read body language).

Product teams benefit the most being local and all together. It’s hard to build a great product when everyone is not in the same room. Remote might work to make a decent product, but I don’t think you can build something great.

Cloud machines for something like this would be >$100 a month.

What security measures and other considerations would I need to keep in mind if I go this route?

For example I have a Emailer service that sends updates to users (needs to connect to my remote hosted DB)

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“Social” anything is a wasteland. Just build useful tools that help people do things, like buy plane tickets.

Now it’s more about applying certain principles, such as CA and preferring simplicity over dependencies.

I’ve tried some web frameworks and found them easy to get started with but they carry so much bloat and unnecessary cruft.

It’s way easier for me to consider my code responsibilities and build simple software that is easy to test, painless to maintain, and finally simple enough for anyone new (or a newbie) to pick up with what they know, without having to learn the nuances of the framework.

With that said I’ll say my favorite popular framework is phoenix. I was studying elixir five years ago and used phoenix to build a few simple apps. Great community and documentation.

Give me as much cash as possible. I’m a software engineer, and not one of the first five/ten employees.

I've gotten wrong/missing deliveries, account issues/mishaps (caused by me in some cases), and other issues that customer service was able to quickly and promptly resolve.

The service is so convenient for the end user. While consciously minding all the other un-cool things Amazon does, their customer service is really good.

A lot of people have the capacity to set aside morals/ethics for a bit of chump change.

The work is interesting. I'm sure the people making nuclear bombs probably said the same thing. Or the death star. "It is such interesting work" Yeah ok.

The last point is so wild when I hear it from some VCs or successful CEO. It’s easy to take a risk when your parents and family are loaded, even if you have nothing to your name at the time. It’s easy to say such things when your parents are doctors or entrepreneurs who put you through private school and then you got into Stanford. I’m sure they’re smart, but they bought their way in when you reduce it. Sure they took it from 20-100, but many people can barely get from 1-10 due to socioeconomic circumstances. I respect the people who manage to go from 1-100 way more than someone who was bound to be reasonably successful at worst from birth.