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Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.
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daxfohl ◴[] No.45553954[source]
Heroku? I know it's still around, though IDK who uses it, but I miss those days when it was thriving. One language, one deployment platform, one database, a couple plugins to choose from, everything simple and straightforward, no decision fatigue.

I often wonder, if AI had come 15 years earlier, would it have been a ton better because there weren't a billion different ways to do things? Would we have ever bothered to come up with all the different tech, if AI was just chugging through features efficiently, with consistent training data etc.?

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1. esperent ◴[] No.45555037[source]
> One language, one deployment platform, one database, a couple plugins to choose from, everything simple and straightforward, no decision fatigue.

Sounds not that different from containers, if you just choose the most popular tooling.

Small projects: docker compose, posgres, redis, nginx

Big projects: kubernetes, posgres, redis, nginx

This is why Heroku lost popularity.

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2. edanm ◴[] No.45555114[source]
Yes. And fittingly, Docker was born out of a Heroku competitor.