The Internet Is Noisy - Jake’s Newsletter
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I’m finding it exceedingly frustrating for the average person to build. On the software side, everything is fucked. We went from having cutesie Ruby on Rails apps deployed instantly on Heroku. Now, it’s “Build scale into your app from Day 1” and “Bake sharding keys into your app with our automated schema tooling engine” Why people need to learn about Docker/Ansible/k8s, frankly at all, but definitely before they deploy their app, is criminal to me, but I’m working on it. In comparison to what’s described next, building environments for automagic dev/deployment seems trivial. It’s not, but…
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