Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?

Post by tompazourek » Sun, Nov 05, 2023, 11:09 AM UTC

all2 wrote: post #193

PH95VuimJjqBqy wrote: post #188

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RP has nothing to do with any programming language or framework, if a web server exists, you can put a reverse proxy in front of it. In this case, asp.net core has a built-in web server named Kestrel. IIS can be used as a reverse proxy so you can have IIS forward requests to web servers bound to local host. Personally, I think its quite hilarious that you went straight to k8's. The vast majority of asp.net code is ru…

Thank you! > Personally, I think its quite hilarious that you went straight to k8's. I work in a production environment with some 1.5mil loc that runs in a k8s cluster, so that's what I know. I'm not sure which reverse proxy we use in our ingress. I'd have to check with devops.

Post by mooreds » Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 2:41 PM UTC

mooreds wrote: post #148

edent wrote: post #16

LAMP. It can easily be maintained by a single developer. Scales well enough for a decent number of users. Huge ecosystem of components. Easy to deploy to literally any web host. Wide variety of front-end systems. If you need to scale, it can do that. Developers for it are plentiful. But you can always rewrite it in the flavour-of-the-month framework when you hit either scale or money.

> Developers for it are plentiful. It's been a hot minute since I was looking for PHP developers, but when I did, I saw a ton of folks with Wordpress experience. And not many others who had experience with traditional three tier applications, how to write a database query, separation of concerns and general software development. Maybe I was looking in the wrong places. Do you find that software engineers who work in…