I rarely share videos here, but it's Friday, so it's fine. Also, this video provides some food for thoughts.

This is a reaction video, if you wish, to an interview with Pieter Levels on the Lex Fridman podcast. I don't link the whole podcast episode here, because it's long, and it's also linked to the video I'm sharing.

You can think whatever you want about Lex and his podcast specifically, but here is what's interesting about this particular quest: he's running several websites that allegedly bring him $3M a year, and all of these websites are hosted on a single DigitalOcean server that costs $400. All these websites are created with PHP and JQuery.

We need to address an elephant in the room here: he does use 3rd party vendors to do some heavy-lifting for his projects, but many "startups" that have much more complex technical stacks do that as well.

I'm not arguing that this is the way to go for everyone, but still an interesting thing to think about.

#architecture #video