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> the simplicity of it all

> No React

True, but when I remember how we used 1x1px Java applet to allow reloading data without refreshing the page I would not call that simpler... And don't even get me started on Flash.

> no REST API

True, but when I remember fumbling about with SOAP I would hardly call that simpler...

> no microservices

True, but what we had instead -- monolithic PHP "applications" with insane hacks to integrate with other monolithic services, Microsoft' and Adobe's attempts to abstract the backend/frontend separation away and so on -- I would not call that simpler...

> no Docker, no Kubernetes

True, but when I remember the deployment mechanisms (upload via FTP), problems with scaling once our server became not enough (usual approach: set-up everything on a separate machine and then have a downtime until it was back up) and so on, I would certainly not call that simpler...

There are always trade-offs, and you continuously have to learn new technologies and unlearn others...



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