> I’m not smart enough to figure out docker confiuration, so instead I compile my web application into a self contained statically linked binary executable file.

Good luck getting that to run in different environments because static or not, nearly every executable has dependencies.

> I’m not smart enough to figure out cloud services and auto scaling groups, so I just upload my static binary file using scp to a linux server I rent from a VPS provider.

Which of course you'll need to setup, patch, figure out how to restart apps when they go down and on and on. There's no easy out.

> I’m not smart enough to figure out how to setup all the databases and firewalls and load balancers, so I just embed the http server and data storage engine as libraries in my static binary.

And how do you back that up?

I get the gist of the article, but some things are not always replaceable with an easy alternative. Most alternatives also have disadvantages as well as their own learning curves.

Postgres, Docker, Infra as Code and Kubernetes are pretty much best practices on any development.

Don't kid yourself that the learning curve is not worth it.