bashmonkey

HA is self-healing. And for things that don't do HA very well, there are hot spares that can be activated in 30 seconds. Depends on the SLA, though, as with most things. Most things in my firm can be stood up within two minutes' time should there be an issue with something.

People use what works for them. For prototyping it works fine. Not my cup of tea. I'm not a systems programmer, I only write tools in Python, Bash, and still awk. Since I work in a primarily *nix-based environment, I use mainly Kate as a poor-man's IDE and the shell, usually Bash.

I've got friends telling me I should switch over to VS now that it runs on Linux, but I'm too stuck in my ways to change, and I like my workflow minimalist as possible. Most of the time, I rapidly prototype something on a development server and then once I know the idea is feasible, I'll move over to Kate and write it more cleanly, since Kate has Konsole built in. I can make changes and run them immediately.

I do my level best to stay away from containers. I don't think most people even need them. It's a fad of sorts. I tend to stick with the tried and true and not follow trends, cloud or otherwise. Nothing worse than having your data on someone else's HW and losing connectivity through no fault of your own. Years ago, I worked for UUNET in Reston/Ashburn, VA, and built web servers and the attendant HW/SW that ran them (usually Sun Solaris/Apache/Oracle). We always had a "back net" into every device. Now? One NIC, one way in. I always like having more than one way to get to a device, be it local or remote. With the cloud, you tend to give this up. I recommend VMs over the cloud using someone else's data and data centre. Nothing worse than going to a tech conference with your boss, and him being the "deer in the headlights" as it were with regard to buying into what's being sold by the vendors. Last time we went, it took me the entire 3-hour car ride home to convince him we didn't need half of what was on offer. I tend to be old school and prefer to make do with Linux/FreeBSD VMs, and whatever software is needed to make something work. I like being in control of my own architecture.

That works if you live in or near a city centre, but I live far outside the city and drive 25 minutes to work one way. Uber would be expensive compared to the cost of petrol and my already-low car payment. Even if you extrapolate out the cost of the car payment, petrol, and insurance, I'm still ahead.