alt Hacker NewsThinking about how well your web architecture will hold up for 100 years (or even 10 years) is bikeshedding and a pointless exercise.
Perfect is the enemy of good and all that. If something is useful, it’s possible to fix the architecture later. The only counter-example I know of has been GitHub, which was built on RoR and so poorly planned that it’s still biting Microsoft on a regular basis.
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ashwinsundar • yesterday at 8:55 PM
Thinking about whether a web architecture will hold up for 100 years is bikeshedding, is bikeshedding as well
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satvikpendem • yesterday at 6:48 PM
100 years, sure, but 10 years? Definitely not bike shedding, I'd hope your website can stay up for 10 years at least.
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ryanisnan • yesterday at 6:13 PM
Sure but it's a spectrum. Surely some choices will age much more poorly than others.
> RoR and so poorly planned that it’s still biting Microsoft on a regular basis.
Disagree. The RoR front end was way more stable and usable than the mess they have made now.