Mid-size orgs can use PaaS if they want to. But the core issue is, standing up a system with high availability, security, automated deployments, etc. etc. is no

Mid-size orgs can use PaaS if they want to. But the core issue is, standing up a system with high availability, security, automated deployments, etc. etc. is non-trivial. There's a small but vocal subset of the HN audience who thinks "I can do all that with one hand tied behind my back," but they're not a scalable solution to actual business requirements. I've worked at companies with 5 people (3 of them cofounders lol), with 30 people, with 100+ people, with 500 people, and with tens of thousands of people (global financial, healthcare, and telecoms corps.) Give me an example of these "mid size companies" that don't have a good technological solution available to them and I'll either tell you what they should be using, or why what they imagine they want doesn't exist.