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This is something I've been hearing. I have a small dev team that deploys many small (but important) apps internally. We feel we need to hire more ops folks to
by wenc 8y ago
This is something I've been hearing. I have a small dev team that deploys many small (but important) apps internally.
We feel we need to hire more ops folks to help us with maintenance and troubleshooting, but people keep telling me that instead of increasing headcount, to just outsource my ops to PaaS like Heroku. After reading the comments here, I may look into this more.
- brightball 8y agoAs somebody who was used to running my own servers when I was first forced to use Heroku on a project...I'll go ahead and tell you there is an adjustment period. But after using then going back to the alternatives, there's a lot more that I miss about it than the other way around. You take for granted how much stuff you no longer have to deal with, until you have to again. There will be a moment when you'll be irritated about some very low-level knob that you want to turn that you can't get access to but when that happens, don't take for granted all the other ones you're not dealing with. And it simplifies life for developers tremendously.