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Sounds like a great way to get locked into paying for more than you need. There's a venerable history of this, from Oracle to Heroku. Solve today's problems sl
by echelon 2y ago
Sounds like a great way to get locked into paying for more than you need.
There's a venerable history of this, from Oracle to Heroku. Solve today's problems slightly faster (minus a few days of plateng/DevOps work), and forever be exposed to having the screws tightened.
Hard pass. Infra should be commodity and replete with dozens of like kinded alternatives.
The worst offenders are those fancy JS CI/CD, one-click deploy solutions that cost 10,000x the underlying primitives. Roll your own and save yourself.
- tonyhart7 2y agotrue, don't listen to these guys lol these guys have bias because that's their entire bussiness model, open source cloud deploy is the future and not tied only to laravel deployment but agnostic scalable + open source is the way
- thomaslord 2y agoI disagree, at least in this specific context. With Laravel Cloud you build a standard Laravel application which can be deployed anywhere, then use the service to handle DevOps for you. Because it doesn't include any unique services of its own, you can always decide to hire a DevOps team and run all the required services yourself. You're totally correct in scenarios where you need to build your project around the service, but this service is specifically a DevOps shortcut with no lock-in. Should your Fortune 500 company use this? Maybe not. Should a one-man dev shop use this? Quite possibly - you pay for the convenience, but it frees up more time to improve your application.