Programming
Environment management usually looks simple at first. Then defaults drift, secrets spread out, local setups stop matching production, and the whole thing becomes a source of avoidable mistakes.
Environment management usually looks simple at first. Then defaults drift, secrets spread out, local setups stop matching production, and the whole thing becomes a source of avoidable mistakes.
AWS diagrams love to look simple. The problem is that the operational reality behind them is usually doing a lot more work than the picture admits.
Serverless has real tradeoffs, but for small teams I still think it usually wins. The operational overhead stays low, the first version ships faster, and the mistakes are easier to afford early on.