As someone with the label "Application Developer" who's been having to develop and deploy and learn my company's entire backend without much help other than "oh

As someone with the label "Application Developer" who's been having to develop and deploy and learn my company's entire backend without much help other than "oh, here's the username/password for that, here ya go" from my superiors in IT, I don't know what to think of this. The servers and databases are all managed by my one boss, but I'm basically now responsible for every aspect of my application's lifecycle. While I'm a 1-man team now, I know down the line we're looking to expand and I'm trying to set things up right for when that day comes - proper version control, and an automated way to push updates to my Django app. I was looking at Docker and the likes, but we're unfortunately running Microsoft SQL Servers and Windows Servers which apparently aren't going to see much support for virtualization/containers til the SQL Server 2016 version comes out. My company is an engineering firm, not tech, so paying for an AWS bucket or me making a case to get the fuck away from Microsoft backend stuff (the headaches I've had with MS SQL already...), etc etc probably isn't high on their to-do list. Maybe due to the sort of company I work for this article just doesn't apply to me anyway, but it seems like the author assumes any company rolling out software or a service is doing so at the cutting edge and as its primary focus. I'm not sure my struggle to find a sane way to automate our deployment and updates would be helped too much by literally any of the cloud based services anyway. Even if they gave me a green light to go all-out on whatever service I wanted to use, at the end of the day I'd also have to manage all of those services and their connections to the app as well. I'm trading off some work for another kind, and a lot of these cloud solutions are hardly painless.