I could run things myself on k8s or other self-managed systems but I have better things to spend my time on and it's not my expertise. I host my apps and datab

I could run things myself on k8s or other self-managed systems but I have better things to spend my time on and it's not my expertise. I host my apps and databases in Heroku. Yes it's more expensive than alternatives, but it's easy and I trust their database backups. For everything else, I find managed services. Basically, I'm a developer and I let other companies handle most of my DevOps for me.