The cofounders will not put your priorities first. Their only goal is to make money for themselves. They will axe you if they feel like it.
They are not hiring a founding engineer because they want to do something nice. They've probably realised this path is cheaper than hiring an external software development company.
Don't think for a second that you will be an equal in this relationship. You will be at their beck and call. You will be forced to write bad code to get early sales.
You'll get paid less to do more. I would stay where you are.
1. The best product rarely wins. As much as it pains me, marketing and sales matter more than product. Your competitors are likely better at marketing and selling themselves and their product.
2. It's a bit cliche, but look into the candy, vitamin, and painkiller theory. Your product is not a painkiller and I suspect it's a candy. Candies are very very hard to make a successful business from.
Humans have been inventing gods since the beginning of time as a way to control/exploit the masses or soothe the over active mind.
There are thousands of dead religions, but this round of current popular religions has hit the nail on the head... right?
A truly powerful and kind super being would not allow child abuse, cancer, famine, or rape to happen. Even if there is a god, I don't want to worship something that allows those things to happen.
Also, the term god is relative. To an ant, we are gods. Any sufficiently advanced being would appear god like to us. Should ants worship us given how little we care about them?
For every moment of beauty that must prove God's existence, there are an equal number of atrocities that must prove God's absence. We just don't see them as often, because humans hide that sort of stuff from polite society.
It's far more healthy to accept our mortality and short lifespan, packing it with things that make us happy. Masking your fears of death with a religion is a mistake.
Rather than devoting my life to worshipping something which may or may not reward me in the next life, I plan to spend my time doing and feeling positive things (because they feel good).
If I had to pick a religion, I think I'd choose Buddhism. It just seems like a good way to be peaceful.
Article doesn't make sense. Some of the "horizontally scaled" servers have their own state. A local cache, a temporary filesystem etc.
Also, has teh author never heard of long running queued jobs? Or long running scheduled jobs? They ultimately report back into the DB (updating their status etc).
This article reeks of someone using AI to make huge leaping jumps of logic. The "single source of truth" rule has survived this long for a reason. It works!
Rewriten in Rust is becoming a meme now.