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Absolutely. Web development with Go and supporting some PHP and Python apps. Tech management understands and values developers. I typically spend less than 30 minutes a day in calls/standup with the rest of my time spent in active development. Most of our developers are remote, including myself. No after-hours availability requirements. How did I get here? Found the job online and applied.

Back end: Go

Front end: Go

Database: Postgres

Proxy+SSL: Caddy

Extremely fast, dead-simple to troubleshoot issues, and no javascript required.

Most users are mobile, so speed and reliability are the priorities. This setup works well and it's simple to notice when there are any issues or any non-2xx responses to any server or database calls.

I feel you. I left $BIGCO a few years ago. Here's what we're doing.

For databases, we seriously considered cockroach, but went with postgres. For source control, we use self-hosted gitlab.

For CI/CD, we use Go and bash exclusively. Our entire back-end/api is Go and we use Go templates on the front-end. Front-end is almost entirely straight html and css. There are handful of front-end javascript http calls if the customer has js enabled, but js is never required.

Auth uses jwt. The Go standard library makes it pretty easy. At $BIGCO, I did use Auth0, but it got very expensive.

We dont really need GraphQL, so that one's a no for us. For service metrics, we capture KPI data server-side and have an admin section/views for the business managers.

Our team is distributed - mostly US, but a few overseas. Slack for comms. Business managers and CTO prioritize support-tickets/feature-requests and they get assigned to developers. No formal sprints; just bundle features together into a release and test it.

+1 Things

Tracking aircraft within radio range and feeding data to ADSB Exchange and Flightaware.

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User toddmcleod and channel JustForFunc on YouTube.

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+1 for Joplin. The UI isn’t as polished as evernote, but it’s open source, unlimited devices, and no vendor lock-in.

+1 Blocking JS makes the web a much better experience.