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Cloud of Disillusion: The Broken Promise of PaaS
Why I’m letting go of dangerous complexity and why I’m embracing the VPS
Their marketing copy invoked the idea that you could upload an app to the cloud and their technology would magically distribute it across a vast network of machines without you ever needing to worry about the technical details. And while this certainly makes launching simple stateless apps easier, once you want to use a database or store files, things get complicated again. Not only that, but PaaS providers are also notorious for changing their products, constantly causing you to adjust your deployment pipelines and face service degradations.
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