In 1991, the entire web fit in 8MB. A Hello World app now requires 500MB. We made software 62,500 times larger to do the same thing. If this were any other discipline, there'd be a congressional hearing.
Posts tagged “architecture” (10)
Stack Overflow serves 1.3 billion page views a month with 9 web servers. WhatsApp hit 450M users with 32 engineers. You have 500 users and three Kubernetes clusters.
Your ORM is quietly sending 247 database queries to render one page. It smiled warmly while loading your entire database into memory one row at a time, like a golden retriever fetching every stick in the park.
Template engines exist so designers can edit HTML. Designers haven't touched your Jinja files in two years. You're running an interpreter inside your server for an audience that left.
Your /health endpoint runs through 12 middleware functions to return {ok: true}. Your architecture is doing a pull-up, a squat, and a mile run before it's allowed to say I'm fine.
Your framework didn't remove complexity. It hid it somewhere you can't find at 3am when everything is on fire.
An honest side-by-side of three blog engines — what each does well, where each falls short, and why they exist.
Loom can read content directly from git objects. No working tree, no checkout, just git show and git ls-tree.
Loom isn't just for blogs. Its series, tags, pages, and navigation make it a capable project documentation platform — and it's already serving its own docs.
A blog engine that just works. Clone, make, run — your blog is live in 30 seconds with themes, RSS, SEO, and hot reload built in.