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?