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by mahathu 1938 days ago
technically illitare here, pardon the stupid question. I hear so much buzz around k8s/docker/AWS/GCP/Azure and all that but simply don't understand what they actually do. if you go with the extra effort to run your product on you own infrastructure, what do you need Heroku/Flynn et al for? isn't the idea of PaaS to take care of server/database/hardware management etc for you, so you can focus on developing your product?