I found that a helpful overview, too. I wish there were a carefully written, book-length equivalent that went into enough detail for a person with the basic fou

I found that a helpful overview, too. I wish there were a carefully written, book-length equivalent that went into enough detail for a person with the basic foundation (basic front-end apps, basic server-side apps, HTTP, ssh/cmd line, SQL) to set up a production infrastructure of approximately the complexity of the one in the article. With that, I could better understand the various managed options out there. In other words, I would be able to shop around and tell from their docs what it is they would do for me and what I would be doing for myself along with the limitations, tradeoffs, issues that needed to be dealt with up front and those that could wait for later (or never), etc.