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0 pointsmyprotegeai1y ago0 comments

There is no "standard way", only rough principles, and it all depends on the unique DNA of the company (cloud, stack, app deployment targets, etc). Yes there are a lot of tools, and experienced infrastructure engineers spend a lot of time integrating them. Often times they won't work without enormous effort, because of early "move fast & break things" design decisions made by the org. My experience has been that a startup is only using these tools from early on if they have experienced engineers and a management that understands the importance of building on a reliable foundation.

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mewpmewp21y ago

There are quick ways to setup a satisfying dev exp for small teams for full stack apps in terms of what will get you going for a while:

1. Git based CI/CD pipelines.

2. Multiple and arbitrarily configured amount of instances.

3. Easy rollbacks, no off time deployments.

4. Different set of environments. Branch/PR based preview links.

5. Out of the box E2E frameworks, etc.

I do agree however that you need someone in the first place to know that those things exist, but in a start up that would just be one experienced eng who is aware that they exist.

But they are standard in terms of that these are things that 99% of SaaS based Start Ups would definitely want.

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