Ask HN: How would you refactor a big project in 2023?
Our site gets about 2-3 mio. visitors each month.
The current code base is PHP with Symfony 3/4, an Admin based on an open source project that is not really going anywhere and Doctrine as the ORM.
During a refactor that started in 2018 it was over-engineered with 10-20 micro services, Kubernetes etc.
Besides the problem that it takes us very long to put simple things to production as we need to touch 3-8 micro services it is also hard to find good developers for our current stack.
Also, we want to be more independent of developers to add a simple field to the database and have it shown up on the frontend. The research of CMS feels like Bachelor theses.
What would your favorite stack be to start a new project in 2023 where you know that you will have hundreds of thousands of visitors guaranteed per day?
The current code base is PHP with Symfony 3/4, an Admin based on an open source project that is not really going anywhere and Doctrine as the ORM.
During a refactor that started in 2018 it was over-engineered with 10-20 micro services, Kubernetes etc.
Besides the problem that it takes us very long to put simple things to production as we need to touch 3-8 micro services it is also hard to find good developers for our current stack.
Also, we want to be more independent of developers to add a simple field to the database and have it shown up on the frontend. The research of CMS feels like Bachelor theses.
What would your favorite stack be to start a new project in 2023 where you know that you will have hundreds of thousands of visitors guaranteed per day?