i sort of am slightly smiling face i ve been wo

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< Mark Miro> i sort of am slightly smiling face i ve been working on kind of a heroku without heroku

Peter van Hardenberg · Answer

actually i take that back it would be pretty terrible for standard business software because it doesn t have ACLs and the data is all public slightly smiling face

Peter van Hardenberg · Answer

it solves the i don t want this data to leave my premises problem though

Mark Miro · Answer

As I understand it Heroku hosts your app but doesn t give you access to the OS So it s like AWS with restrictions I wonder if we re talking about the same thing

Peter van Hardenberg · Answer

heroku is sort of an improved API to a linux hosting environment

Peter van Hardenberg · Answer

it s containers a build system to make containers out of git repos traffic delivery log collection and various and sundry other niceties like CI databases and team management

Mark Miro · Answer

I see I m a frontend dev so I some have misconceptions about backend I think it s a good sign if as you re coding you end up with parts resembling actual products You might be walking in the footsteps of the Heroku guys

Mark Miro · Answer

Good abstractions tend to re appear if you re not explicitly trying to re invent them

Peter van Hardenberg · Answer

Well I helped build Heroku from the early days so it s more like fighting the same old battles