GAE did this way back when. They give you a high level Python/Java API that works both locally and on prod, and you just push a newer version of your codebase w

GAE did this way back when. They give you a high level Python/Java API that works both locally and on prod, and you just push a newer version of your codebase with a command line tool - no need for containers, build steps, dealing with machines and operating systems, configurable databases, certificates, setting up traces or monitoring... No need to set anything up for that particular GAE, just create a new project, point a domain to it if you're feeling fancy, and off you go. But in the end, the industry apparently prefers low-level AWS bullshit, where you have to manually manage networks, virtual machines, NAT gateways, firewall rules, load balancers, individually poke eight different subsystems just to get the basic thing running … It’s just like dealing with physical hardware, just 10x more expensive and exploiting the FOMO of ‘but what happens if we need to scale’.