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The context of the original question was improving the availability of a product deployed to Heroku or other PaaS, which implies a lack of dedicated operations
by semiquaver 14y ago
The context of the original question was improving the availability of a product deployed to Heroku or other PaaS, which implies a lack of dedicated operations staff.
An experienced ops team willing to be on call 24x7 is easily six figures by itself.
- jsprinkles 14y agoIf you are running an app that is utilized by more people than just yourself, there is never "a lack of dedicated operations staff". That situation simply does not exist in any known realm. In the case of a solo developer, you are the operations staff. You are on call, 24x7. With that in mind, everything I talk about in my reply is doable by one person, or a solo developer. A cursory understanding of administration goes far, and if you're deploying to Heroku, you should know enough about administration to not be completely in the dark when things fall apart. Deploying a mass-consumable Web service implies that you have accepted the fact that you are now a developer and administrator.