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>> 1. Moving our stuff out of the cloud without going back to static hosts.

I move companies between clouds and on-prem to cloud, cloud to on-prem (even though a bit bigger one than 37singnals) and I could use tools like Ansible and Terraform. In my experience when a smaller company starts to writes tools that solve the imaginary problems of the CTO they are not focusing on solving customer problems and this usually ends badly.

>> 2. Giving new rails devs a tool where they can deploy their application easily, in a modern fashion

Could you share the comparison chart of tools that you considered? What thought process led you to believe that this is an unsolved problem and requires a new tool? Genuinely interested.

>> But judging a tool because an example used an IP address seems shortsighted.

How should I judge it by than? Reading the code? Figuring out how to hold it right myself?

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> I move companies between clouds and on-prem to cloud, cloud to on-prem (even though a bit bigger one than 37singnals) and I could use tools like Ansible and Terraform.

Where did anyone say we don't use other tools? Chef + Terraform are wonderful and still in use for us.

> Could you share the comparison chart of tools that you considered? What thought process led you to believe that this is an unsolved problem and requires a new tool? Genuinely interested.

Your phrasing here and in your previous quoted reply leads me to believe you're not genuinely interested. Our environment is not your environment, our experiences are not your experiences. No, I can't share a chart of other tools that were considered, but off the top of my head, Capistrano, various CI integrations, Github Actions, etc.

We're a rails shop. We're going to look at tools in that area. We're not going to go dig into dagger or garden.io or something that causes us to have to conform our dev/deploy environment to a mental model that adds more friction for our developers.

> How should I judge it by than? Reading the code? Figuring out how to hold it right myself?

It's not that complicated of code, only about 2k, total, IIRC? I mean, you could read it. I'm baffled that you're choosing to compare a structural design flaw like the iPhone antennae issue to the fact that a configuration example in a new tool used an IP address. Go off, king.

> In my experience when a smaller company starts to writes tools that solve the imaginary problems of the CTO they are not focusing on solving customer problems and this usually ends badly.

Like writing their own web framework in obscure programming language?

> Like writing their own web framework in obscure programming language?

Which caused the biggest spike in CO2 production for recorded human history while making operation teams rage-quit their job over undefined method [] for nil messages?

Disclaimer I love Ruby and Rails to death.

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