React brings some complexity but at the benefit of better state management and DX. If you have ever worked on large projects where each button has a click handler to do 20 different things, you will find that it's easy to miss some edge cases and have state drift.
Postgres has a worse implementation of MVCC. It results in more bloat being produced, and slightly slower updates in a highly concurrent environment. Most businesses don't operate at the scale where this matters. But on the flip side, the tooling and developer experience is much better.
Other fads have the disadvantage of being easily identifiable and avoidable. But AI chips away at what it means to be human. Now imagine if every comment in this thread is not a real person, but made by a LLM. Get any Truman show vibes?
Complexity doesn't necessarily slow down feature development. In my experience it reduces the project longevity. At some point it will be too big and complex to rewrite all the while more glaring problems emerge and cannot be dealt with.
Java developers are cheap and easy to find. There are libraries for everything that you would need - AWS SDK, Redis, etc. Performance is tolerable and can be improved with things like Micronaut and native ahead of time compilation (GraalVM).
> I must not understand the question, because the answer is "the obvious way". You just run the V8 process once in each container and scale up your containers. There's nothing special to it.
Interesting. So the idea is that the you scale identical instances of your app to increase both frontend and backend throughout? Sorry for the stupid questions. I am used to using a CDN for serving the front end and just scaling the backend resources (instead of adding more containers that are running Express of whatever web server within).
Java/React dev here. This seems great for a small app. But could someone help me understand how this would work in a large scale app? It looks like the some pieces of the JS make up the server side API of this and it runs in a V8 process. How would you deploy a production version on AWS and scale those à la ECS Fargate containers against RDS?