On: In defense of simple architectures

[wackget]

I don't know how the author can claim that they run a "simple" architecture.

From their job pages:

Our stack :

    backend: Python 3 (+ mypy)
    API layer: GraphQL
    android frontend: Kotlin/Jetpack
    iOS frontend: Swift/SwiftUI
    web frontend: TypeScript/React
    database: Postgres
    infrastructure: GCP / Terraform
    orchestration: Kubernetes

That is not simple by any stretch of the imagination.

[rendall → wackget]

How would you simplify this?

[nunez → rendall]

for starters i wouldnt use kubernetes. love the system, but boy is it complicated. i'd use a few cloud function or stick them in VMs behind a load balancer and call it good.

[polio → nunez]

> As for Kubernetes, we use Kubernetes because knew that, if the business was successful (which it has been) and we kept expanding, we’d eventually expand to countries that require us operate our services in country. The exact regulations vary by country, but we’re already expanding into one major African market that requires we operate our “primary datacenter” in the country and there are others with regulations that, e.g., require us to be able to fail over to a datacenter in the country.