If you try applying this POV to any field, it'll sound like "developing anything on any platform is broken" If you want to develop something significant, you'l

If you try applying this POV to any field, it'll sound like "developing anything on any platform is broken" If you want to develop something significant, you'll have to dive deep and spend some time boosting yourself on the learning curve. Speaking of web development, most good MVC frameworks today solve this problem for you. Ex: when you use rails, it makes your dev server a command away. It automatically creates an sqlite database by default. If you are building trivial stuff, you do not have to understand SQL and directly deal with the database. All you have to understand is some ruby and a bit of high-school HTML to create simple sites. Whether those bare minimal skills (i.e, minus CSS, minus Javascript) help you build a startup or get profitable is a topic for another day. But it does get you started! Deploying... whether you use Heroku or any other platform or your own rock solid VPS, is upto you. The blog post, IMO, sounds like the rant of a tired programmer.