I had never been a fan of devops/server-admin work. The sheer number of headaches involved in setting up the services, configuring them, automating them, and ensuring their reliability were just annoying and time-consuming. PaaS offerings like Heroku, AWS—and later—Railway, and Render, were appealing options out of this mess. I could do everything from the web interface and didn't have to run a bunch of commands now and then. I switched to PaaS when they started to look affordable and did...
