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Partially agree It is so much easier to deploy now (and for the last 5-10 years) without managing an actual server and OS It just gets easier, with new comple
by yieldcrv 2y ago
Partially agree
It is so much easier to deploy now (and for the last 5-10 years) without managing an actual server and OS
It just gets easier, with new complexities added on top
In 2014 I was enamored that I didn’t need to be a DBA because platforms as a service were handling all of it in a NoSQL kind of way. And exposed intuitive API endpoints for me.
This hasn’t changed, at worst it was a gateway drug to being more hands on
I do fullstack development because it’s just one language, I do devops because it’s not a fulltime job and cloud formation scripts and further abstraction is easyish, I can manage the database and I haven’t gotten vendor locked
You don’t have to wait 72 hours for DNS and domain assignments to propagate anymore it’s like 5 minutes, SSL is free and takes 30 minutes tops to be added to your domain, CDNs are included. Over 10 years ago this was all so cumbersome