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I’m so disillusioned with cloud/serverless/Kubernetes these days. If I were building a startup I’d just build a monolithic service, plonk it on a Hetzner VM, boom done. You can start making money.

So many startups are bleeding cash because they’ve been convinced by AWS and others they need auto scaling and self healing from day one. Just build the thing, get it running, make it good later.

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Honestly, same. I'm building a small BE for a small startup with a friend of mine, and while sometimes I have these urges that I should migrate everything to K8S / Docker Swarm, so far the setup with three small VMs of API server machine + ingress machine + auth machine with simple SSH deploy through GitHub Actions (that can always be performed manually, if needed) works fine. Is it fancy? No. Can I understand everything to the last details what happens during deploy and debug it? Oh yes.

Focusing on fancy infra now will just take a lot of time for little to no benefit.

It sounds a bit like a grift these days; investors want you to invest millions in infinite scaling ops 'because good' so you don't get the big money if you don't so you do, wether you may ever need it or not.

Almost every startup can run their entire lifetime on a $4 vps and have the same outcome if it wasn't for the required (...) vc moneys.

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