To metal, or not to metal?
Deploying software to Heroku, Vercel, Netlify, or other cloud platform services is “easy.” Or, if it’s not easy, it’s a lot easier than building your own datacenter or managing your own fleet of bare metal, right? DevOps effort increases dramatically when you take away the aaSes: The number of components you become responsible for increases quite a bit with a move from Platform as a Service (PaaS), to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), to Metal as a Service (MaaS), to wholly self-managed, on-premises workloads....