The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
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The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
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Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#2This looks solid. And k8s makes total sense, since you are avoiding vendor lock-in.
I'm just wondering why you don't also run your managed services in k8s?
Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#3It's a great writeup, I just find it weird that the author runs his "privacy-focused" analytics service on AWS and Cloudflare. From a GDPR perspective it's not even clear if this is lawful (Schrems-II), and there are some good alternative cloud services available in the EU (e.g. Hetzner or OVH). Also, Cloudflare still sets the __cf* cookie on every request, so it's not really cookieless tracking (I'm aware that Cloudflare is planning to get rid off this cookie though).
Edit: Maybe the downvoters can explain what they're disagreeing with?
Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#4> From a technical point of view, this SaaS processes a large amount of requests per second from anywhere in the world, and stores the data in an efficient format for real time querying.
That is the closes thing to a number of requests I could find. So this architecture, no matter how solid, is somewhere between „way to large“ and „matches perfect“.
It seems like a solid breakdown on how to deploy your services to k8s and how to properly do CD deployments. But it does never mention whether it actually makes sense at the scale he actually has.
Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#5It's a great writeup, I just find it weird that the author runs his "privacy-focused" analytics service on AWS and Cloudflare. From a GDPR perspective it's not even clear if this is lawful (Schrems-II), and there are some good alternative cloud services available in the EU (e.g. Hetzner or OVH). Also, Cloudflare still sets the __cf* cookie on every request, so it's not really cookieless tracking (I'm aware that Cloud…
On AWS you can chose the geographic location where you run your stuff. I guess the author is running them in EU zones.
Regardinging CloudFlare cookies, I am not sure if this is the authors problem, since I guess he is neither processing nor storing any data about it.
Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#6Super interesting! Definitely feels like a lot of fairly low-level tech to have to deal with for a one-person company, but I guess that doesn't surprise me any more :)
Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#7> From a technical point of view, this SaaS processes a large amount of requests per second from anywhere in the world, and stores the data in an efficient format for real time querying. That is the closes thing to a number of requests I could find. So this architecture, no matter how solid, is somewhere between „way to large“ and „matches perfect“. It seems like a solid breakdown on how to deploy your services to k8…
Yes, K8s seems a bit overkill for such a service. But if you like to work with K8s and it motivates you to stay on task, why not?
Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#8It's a great writeup, I just find it weird that the author runs his "privacy-focused" analytics service on AWS and Cloudflare. From a GDPR perspective it's not even clear if this is lawful (Schrems-II), and there are some good alternative cloud services available in the EU (e.g. Hetzner or OVH). Also, Cloudflare still sets the __cf* cookie on every request, so it's not really cookieless tracking (I'm aware that Cloud…
On AWS you can chose the geographic location where you run your stuff. I guess the author is running them in EU zones. Regardinging CloudFlare cookies, I am not sure if this is the authors problem, since I guess he is neither processing nor storing any data about it.
Sure, I still find it's a weird choice for a privacy-focused service. Also it's not clear that the Cloudflare cookie is really required to ensure the functionality of a web service (it probably isnt' as they're planning to get rid off it), so just pretending that you don't need to inform customers about this cookie set by your data processor is mere wishful thinking. Again, no one cares much about this and it's not enforced, if you're building a privacy-focused service you should give it some thought though instead of just saying "Cloudflare is cool because it gives me free TLS and load balancing". Just my 2c.
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#9How do you start learning this breadth of software engineering? I consider myself good in the python / django space, but where do I start with learning these infrastructure technologies? I find that I use them once or twice periodically, and then don't touch them for so long, so I forget much of what I have learned.
Re: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup
#10Cool write-up. I am a K8s hater, but I can see how this can work well for small projects with 1 developer. EKS definitely takes a lot of the maintenance headache, but there'll still be some down the line.