Can someone explain to me why a static page with 11 links should have:
- database with 3 tables,
- 47 libraries
- full blown next.js setup
- docker container
- infrastructure monitoring
- pin code based admin access to add additional links

Portfolio project.

You would think the same of the sqlite site, but it does 200 queries per page view.

Bc if you don’t overengineer you’re not worthy

If you don’t know at least 30 different libraries, cloud tools, multi tier tenant infrastructures, caching libs and multi layered image compression stacks with kunernetes and several docker layers you are a bad fit for software engineering and must join the peanut brained cavemen who cannot grasp the complexity of our overengineering. We are above you humans

Job security

No

added complexity to create more jobs

Database with 3 tables because they haven't got round to creating the other 6 tables yet.

47 libraries because only n00bs reinvent the wheel, even if the current wheel is triangular and you're only allowed to use it on Thursdays.

Next.js / docker to make sure nobody can accuse them of not knowing about nextjs and docker.

Infrastructure monitoring because when you make something unnecessarily complicated it craps out all the time.

Pin code based admin access because the earlier stuff about reinventing the wheel doesn't apply to security.

Fuck me, I only have a simple webpage with plain JS, some css and a even less HTML... Why do people do this?

@Ranchonyx some don’t

Sounds like something you’d make as a side project to sharpen your knowledge on those individual areas.

You start off with the single page then just add shit from there.

lol some dev was dead inside and just a mannequin for management's neurosis I guess

this is like the time I was asked to build DRM for a node js software... not to mention the only reason I'm in tech now is cuz I pirated everything and reverse engineered MMO servers as a teenager so that's just a weird ask man

Maybe they're trying to build a multi user blog posting website and gave up?

Jekyll was too complicated

@blindXfish - since my nickname is what it is lemme explain you from a point of view from someone who is in web dev since 2001.

1. NextJs is a cancer, a curse word marketed (ton of money spent on marketing) as best thing since sliced bread, in reality there are better options - i don't say that it has no use case, but like redux, you probably don't need it! At all!

2. Dockerizing a simple website is like making a car garage for your skateboard, bad analogy but you get what i want to say

3. Pin code access to add new link - weird flex, simple auth is enough, heck markdown pushed to github is enough

4. Database with 3 tables - that's weird one, unless it is SSG than database is there to store the data, i would opt for markdown instead in any case

5. Infra monitoring - sense? has none!

6. 47 libraries? Like you need 11ty or astro and maybe tailwind if you're into it, maybe, just maybe alpine and some animation library if you want to go crazy

Webdev sounds like a bad joke in 2025

@jestdotty what is needed to reverse engineer the mmo server? The whole installed game with server updates, right? Just instalation file for client isn't enough to determine what server is sending and how...

Am I on the right path?

There is one game that vanished from the existence and I am undeleting my old hard drives to get the client installation folder...

@devJs yeah you'd run the client and then sniff what it sent to the server and what the server would send back

then you would reproduce the API and code your own server guessing what the logic must've been for real (or your own better improved version.. modded super fun servers everywhere!)

@jestdotty thanks on direction, i am on the end of my wits with undeleting the files.

i feel it is better to get what i can and the install the game in different folder then just merge them.

It was small korean mmo back in 2008-2010 when i was in college ( yeah i am that old), fast action tons of fun, game just disappeared over the night, they just pulled the plug. Crazy!

@devJs I'm not sure you can reverse engineer without a live server

your client can send signals to the dead server but then you don't know what signals to send back. you'd have to reroute your IP to the dead server and then reply back as it and guess what the client would've expected

sometimes in some languages decompiling is possible -- if all else fails I guess you can try learning assembly

I didn't do this stuff myself. I was a kid. by the time i arrived there were several MMOs and all I did was poke around in the c/c++ and fixed some bugs. those were the golden days of tech info though. people would write guides for everything on forums and it was super fun

But it's the framework used everywhere