This is actually one of the things I struggle with the most.
Even small scale apps are mysterious to me, I have no idea how to build, deploy and maintain an app correctly.
For context, I work for a startup as solo dev and I manage 5 projects ranging from mobile to fullstack apps.
I am completely overwhelmed because there basically does not exist any clear answer to this. Some go all in on cloud or managed infra but I am not rich so I'd highly prefer cheap deployment/hosting. Next issue that idk how to fix is scaling the app. I find myself being stuck while building a ton as well, because there are WAY too many attack vectors in web development idk how to properly protect from.
Doesn't help not having any kind of mentor either. Thus far the apps I've built run fine considering I only have like 30-40 users max. But my boss wants to scale and I think itll doom the projects.
I'd wish there were actual standards making web safe without requiring third party infra for auth for example. It should be way easier for people to build web apps in a secure way.
It got to a point of me not wanting to build web stuff anymore because rather than building features I have to think about attack vectors, scaling issues, dependency issues, legacy code. It makes me regret joining the industry tbh.
For context, I work for a startup as solo dev and I manage 5 projects ranging from mobile to fullstack apps.
I am completely overwhelmed because there basically does not exist any clear answer to this. Some go all in on cloud or managed infra but I am not rich so I'd highly prefer cheap deployment/hosting. Next issue that idk how to fix is scaling the app. I find myself being stuck while building a ton as well, because there are WAY too many attack vectors in web development idk how to properly protect from.
Doesn't help not having any kind of mentor either. Thus far the apps I've built run fine considering I only have like 30-40 users max. But my boss wants to scale and I think itll doom the projects.
I'd wish there were actual standards making web safe without requiring third party infra for auth for example. It should be way easier for people to build web apps in a secure way.
It got to a point of me not wanting to build web stuff anymore because rather than building features I have to think about attack vectors, scaling issues, dependency issues, legacy code. It makes me regret joining the industry tbh.