[ctvo]

That it's for toy projects. Using annotations to provision infrastructure hides complexity from you, but that complexity is what's required to actually manage and resolve infrastructure issues in production. In a prototype or toy project, sounds great.

[openquery]

This argument can be made at any level of abstraction I think.

For example, you can make the same case for AWS Lambdas abstracting the infrastructure away from you, or VMs that run on-top of a hypervisor abstracting away the bare-metal servers.

IMO it really boils down to the quality of the implementation of a product and also designing your product such that if users need to debug (which hopefully isn't often) you offer that visibility into the internals.

[michaelmior]

> IMO it really boils down to the quality of the implementation of a product

I think this is true. But I can understand why people are more skeptical of Shuttle than Lambda. Running a function is a fairly simple task and since lambdas are stateless, it's relatively easily to feel confident about this abstraction. I'm less confident that I won't need to worry about the details of how my database is provisioned, configured, and maintained.

This still seems great for hobby projects. It also seems like it would be relatively easy to transition to something more manual if the need arises.