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> from spinning up test environments for PRs Hooking up some kind of CI/CD to GitHub through webhooks > storing secret keys Built into GitHub (or an instance
by MuffinFlavored 4y ago
> from spinning up test environments for PRs
Hooking up some kind of CI/CD to GitHub through webhooks
> storing secret keys
Built into GitHub (or an instance of Hashicorp Vault which can be hosted for free)
> to monitoring
Can run your own Grafana/Promtheus
Obviously there's a cost running all of this yourself as opposed to just paying them to do it. Just making sure I wasn't missing something obvious tradeoff wise between "our company would rather pay somebody to manage all of this for us"
- laundermaf 4y agoYeah of course you can do it all by yourself. You just need a server online. Services like Herokus are useful because they save hundreds of hours of sysops.
- MuffinFlavored 4y ago> Services like Herokus are useful because they save hundreds of hours of sysops. Which they know, and can charge you accordingly for, right? If a single sysop engineer cost $100k/yr (without anybody managing them), they can charge you $50k/yr to replace them and it'd still be a steal, right?
- lolinder 4y agoAssuming they have no competition, yes. But now they're not just competing with sysops, they're also completing with a bunch of other app platforms. None of the others are quite as full featured, but if the competitors can save 80% of the sysops time at 20% of the cost, Heroku will see people switching away.
- gkoberger 4y agoI think you just proved my point, no? I don't want to do any of this; I want to pay someone to do it.