My rule of thumb when working on side projects is to keep it simple: - use tech-stacks that I know - even simpler – use node.js / express (i.e. use only one p

My rule of thumb when working on side projects is to keep it simple: - use tech-stacks that I know - even simpler – use node.js / express (i.e. use only one programming language) - Standard AWS EC2, S3, Postgres instances - scale vertically before scaling horizontally - use GitHub Actions as much as possible - deploys and rollbacks are done manually - I keep a list of useful CLI commands in Notion If you're a small team you shouldn't need to think about kubernetes tbh.