Just Fucking Use Go - Blain Smith blainsmith.com · Originally posted on Pinboard

Write the fucking monolith. One Go binary. One Postgres. One Redis if you absolutely must. Serve HTML on the same port that serves your JSON API. Run it on a single VPS that costs less than your monthly oat milk budget. Scale that to ten thousand requests per second without breaking a sweat because Go was literally designed for this and goroutines are cheap as hell.

Great rant. HN comments on article are also fun.