This is essentially how Levels.fyi operated for several years: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/scaling-to-millions-with-google-...
You can serve static data over HTTP
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#12I’ve got some JSON being served to an iOS App from the cheapest of hosting which is ~5 lines of PHP to get the data from MySQL and return JSON.
It’s been running unattended for a decade….
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#13And serving it over plain http is how you can get Man-In-the-Middled!
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#14It's pretty common for cicd pipelines to generate static json like this to track environment info.
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#15This technique of producing an “API” from directories of json generated by batch jobs and creative use of symlinks can be surprisingly effective. I wrote a simple program to transform a list of RSS feeds into a directory tree that I’ve been using for years as my feed reader API to great effect.
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#16Was this is a joke or something? You could have always done this with whatever framework you were using including Express, FastAPI, Flask & everything else....
It was a sarcastic reminder to KISS.
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#18KISS is good... until it isn't.
At my work I struggle with the opposite: all problems are being squeezed into "let's put it into static JSON on the CDN" - which ends up with a complex custom JSON based language (schema) to support sharing information between apps, subsetting information (ie. search) etc - ie. implementing an ad-hoc one-file database. Ahh... and don't forget about complex CI/CD pipelines and Git setup that allow business users to manipulate data in these files.
I found "just use Postgres for everything" a much saner default in the end.
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#19What if the data is dynamic but small and low qps? What are the current easiest projects and services for authed data CRUD? Is firebase still good?
Supabase[1] is a popular, open-source[2], and very modern alternative with a great free tier!
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#20I do this when possible. Caching can be a pain to get right though. If you’re set up to do hashed filenames for JS and CSS already, you can leverage that for cache busting your json, and then you need to inject the hashed filename into the app somehow.