2025-12-04 23:13 UTC
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@matt@toot.cafe 2025-12-04 23:18
@polotek@social.polotek.net I think that a lot more personal projects, and even small company-internal projects that don't require 100% uptime/HA/etc., can and should be hosted on just a single Linux server with regular backups. Then run the application in a container if you really want to, but it could just use podman with its systemd integration. And just put the database and files on local storage.
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@CoralineAda@ruby.social 2025-12-04 23:31
@polotek@social.polotek.net I’ve been collaborating on an open source / open science platform and I'm really worried about setup and deployment by folks who may know some python but are not engineers. It's a Rails app (fine for hosting on Heroku) with a postgres database (Heroku plugin available at free tier) but the secret sauce is in its graph database-- which requires a 3rd party SaaS and introduces a lot of complexity. Not sure how to solve for it, so I’m watching your thread to learn with you.
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@joeri_s@mstdn.social 2025-12-05 05:58
@polotek@social.polotek.net The small apps era was all about files. Maybe we can get back to that by going back to files as the data primitive. Static web apps can access local files with the file access API or they can access cloud files with secretless client SDKs (eg dropbox has several ways to access it from a static web app). It’s not like people couldn’t share work in the files era, they just did it outside the app.
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@gkrnours@mastodon.gamedev.place 2025-12-05 06:44
@polotek@social.polotek.net do you have experience with yunohost? My understanding is, it's the opposite direction. It's apps running on a single machine with a bit of glue. I don't think it has some of cloud niceness like infinite computing or forever storage but it trade it for easy of use IMO