Even if your default starting stack is somewhat complex, for example, separate client and server apps, database, cache, and queue, most one-click cloud providers (ex Heroku or ElasticBeanstalk) offer ways of unifying logs, monitoring, simple provisioning, etc. You are “locked-in” in that you can’t move to another provider within an hour, but the lock-in would still be very low, you can use generic technologies (ex: Memcached or Redis) and have an impact only on a few config files...

I’m not telling people what to do, if you like K8s or Docker or what have you knock yourself out, and I mean it. For example, people keep telling other people on HN not to use React and that’s a hill I’d die on - and could write a dissertation defending it. I’m just wondering what the dev experiences of others are so I may learn from them.