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		kazinator 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with... A kindergarten pick up app can be a CGI application written in shell scripts, keeping all data in text files, and running on a Pentium.

roguecoder 3 months ago [–]

But we want to be modern!

That way we can spend massive piles of money on cloud compute, monitoring, documentation, not to mention the constant maintenance to mitigate the security issues in the multiple layers of libraries we depended on.

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