Re:Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about development in t...
by BerislavLopac on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @05:28AM
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> the simplicity of it all
> No React
True, but when I remember how we used 1x1px Java applet to allow reloading data without refreshing the page I would not call that simpler... And don't even get me started on Flash.
> no REST API
True, but when I remember fumbling about with SOAP I would hardly call that simpler...
> no microservices
True, but what we had instead -- monolithic PHP "applications" with insane hacks to integrate with other monolithic services, Microsoft' and Adobe's attempts to abstract the backend/frontend separation away and so on -- I would not call that simpler...
> no Docker, no Kubernetes
True, but when I remember the deployment mechanisms (upload via FTP), problems with scaling once our server became not enough (usual approach: set-up everything on a separate machine and then have a downtime until it was back up) and so on, I would certainly not call that simpler...
There are always trade-offs, and you continuously have to learn new technologies and unlearn others...
> No React
True, but when I remember how we used 1x1px Java applet to allow reloading data without refreshing the page I would not call that simpler... And don't even get me started on Flash.
> no REST API
True, but when I remember fumbling about with SOAP I would hardly call that simpler...
> no microservices
True, but what we had instead -- monolithic PHP "applications" with insane hacks to integrate with other monolithic services, Microsoft' and Adobe's attempts to abstract the backend/frontend separation away and so on -- I would not call that simpler...
> no Docker, no Kubernetes
True, but when I remember the deployment mechanisms (upload via FTP), problems with scaling once our server became not enough (usual approach: set-up everything on a separate machine and then have a downtime until it was back up) and so on, I would certainly not call that simpler...
There are always trade-offs, and you continuously have to learn new technologies and unlearn others...