While I agree with the author of this article from the perspective of the engineer who likes to tinker with things and roll my own stuff I must disagree from th

While I agree with the author of this article from the perspective of the engineer who likes to tinker with things and roll my own stuff I must disagree from the business perspective. From the business perspective a PaaS solution costs one dollar amount and a custom, hand rolled, stateful solution built and maintained by engineers costs another dollar amount. With offerings from AWS the former will almost always beat the later. It's not until you reach Facebook or Google level scale that the monthly savings from the latter can outweigh the benefits of just using an AWS solution like DynamoDB or ECS, etc.