I take it you haven't taken a look at backend lately. Vagrant? Or Docker? Composer? Maybe Drush. Will this plugin break? Is it even still actively maintained? Which database? Are we still on the NoSQL fad? Maria, or postgres or mysql? And does my production host support my language version, and oh god another php vulnerability
I have done nothing but backend for a decade. Docker's been around for the past 6 years and still going strong.
Database? Postgres, always. You have to bend it so far until it breaks it's not even funny. If you need something else, you'll now.
Backend lang? Python. Framework? Django. Need data munging? NumPy/SciPy/Pandas/PySpark. Need a really high speed component? C will do, Rust if you feel fancy.
OS? Ubuntu, or Debian. They'll do well. Again, you need to have really, really good reasons to use anything else.
Of course there's alternatives! But there is absolutely no reason to move away from this stack. For some reason frontend developers seem to be either on a constant treadmill of moving technologies, or being stuck with subpar old tech with clear deficiencies.
So React has been around longer than Docker? Good to know that frontend is on a slower treadmill than backend, which according to this thread has moved on to alpine or htmx or something else.
I dunno man, my "backend architecture" is a bunch of Rails servers (some web servers, some queue servers, but they run on the same codebase with different entrypoints), a PostgreSQL server, and a Redis server.
