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Thank you for your great feedback! My solution runs on a cheap server at Hetzner currently. Regarding the bus factor: I comment my own code a lot. Especially for myself, because after some months I tend to forget why simple one-liners still work ;-) But you're right: most junior developers want to use the latest FancyNewThing, download NPMs and other packages to solve simplest problems.

Is your technique still in use or exchanged by something else?



Depends. I don't work much on data analytics these days so only a few of the systems I've put in place (using SQLite + bash scripts on a workstation) are still in use. Most have been shut down for organizational/business reasons. They did their job and typically the entire project was put out to pasture, not upgraded to other technology. Further reaffirming my suspicion that investing in such complexity up front was not warranted.

The biggest risk is that your software is successful and you're stuck with a ball of hacks that no one except you knows how to run or debug! Good documentation and automation can keep it alive, but not indefinitely. If your project is successful, you can expect it to get more complex by default.




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