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Re:Ask HN: What should I use instead of Heroku? by fartcannon on Saturday May 07, 2022 @08:24AM (#31293961)
It's crazy how the cloud companies/Windows/Apple have encouraged modern developers to be scared of running apt update/upgrade.

Can marketing cause learned helplessness?

Re:Ask HN: What should I use instead of Heroku? by brodsky on Sunday May 08, 2022 @11:01PM (#31310059)
This has nothing to do with the companies you mentioned, and everything to do with the emergence and acceptance of DevOps/SRE best-practices over the last decade or so, which can hardly be reduced to an occasional `apt update`. There is a saying how "The building codes are written in blood". this translates quite well to modern software development lifecycle. It takes a non-trivial amount of work to maintain an internet-facing system in a secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable fashion, especially when e-commerce comes into play. At least if it's anything more serious than a toy project page or "brochureware". And modern developers don't want to deal with this toil - it's a solved problem at this point - they want to code features and build products, and it's wonderful that platforms exist that enable them to do so without having to lose sleep over the CVE du-jour.
Re:Ask HN: What should I use instead of Heroku? by fartcannon on Monday May 09, 2022 @01:27AM (#31310917)
It's just websites.