Ask HN: Where can one learn about boring web development?

Context (skippable):

If you want to learn web development today and you use Google—even with the “one weird trick” of appending ”reddit” to your searches—all you find are micro-services, serverless/lambdas, >1M react packages, >10M npm packages, and >100M tutorials of how to do yet another to-do list with MongoDB or Firebase or the amazing marvel that is using SSR/CSR with Vercel.

For the sake of over-simplification, let's call this exciting web development. Now, where can I learn about the other side of the spectrum?

Request:

Is there an insanely pragmatic website or book containing everything you need to know when creating production-ready (yet simple!) web applications?

I am talking about HTML5, CSS3, modern JS (do you even need it? and if so, how does simple javascript look like?); `cron` jobs; database persistence; difference/explanations of when to use bare-metal v. vps v. vm; what there is to know about reverse-proxying and load balancers and how to correctly setup and deploy those and so on?

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