
Is frontend eating the whole stack? Chat with Kurt (Fly.io), Jack (Amplitude) and David (Stately)
The Infra Pod
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The Complexity of JavaScript
In 2010, backends were incredibly difficult. In 2023, you can buy a server with 256 core, two terabytes of RAM. You can build a vastly simpler back end that scales to way bigger than most people ever had. That tells you everything about the complexity one must understand to actually truly be able to like trace the stack.
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