What? Did you read any of what was written? Point-by-point breakdown for you:
> You want a rapid development platform
No, we want low-maintenance infrastructure.
> that doubles as a production system
It is a production system. It does successfully serve many thousands of users for us every day. We've yet to have an outage that wasn't our own fault.
> and costs nothing to maintain
What? I specifically said we're willing to pay more not to have to spend as much time on infrastructure.
It's OK if you're too set in your ways to even attempt to level with alternative points of view, but at least try to read a little more thoroughly. And maybe admit that you're not willing to budge, so nobody wastes time trying to explain an alternative point of view.
I wasn't dismissing your point of view. Heroku is what I described. AWS, to a certain extent, is what I described. And I said it was a production system, too; you didn't have to over-emphasize what I had already said, as if I didn't just say it. "Costs nothing to maintain" is in comparison to paying to maintain it yourself. But thanks for knee-jerking.
> You want a rapid development platform
No, we want low-maintenance infrastructure.
> that doubles as a production system
It is a production system. It does successfully serve many thousands of users for us every day. We've yet to have an outage that wasn't our own fault.
> and costs nothing to maintain
What? I specifically said we're willing to pay more not to have to spend as much time on infrastructure.
It's OK if you're too set in your ways to even attempt to level with alternative points of view, but at least try to read a little more thoroughly. And maybe admit that you're not willing to budge, so nobody wastes time trying to explain an alternative point of view.