I’ve found that a lot of developers would rather not have to think about where their application is going to run. This is a real shame, especially when there are free tools like SST that bridge the DevOps gap, making things like AWS and IAM less of a pain.
Even better, there are complete self-hostable platform solutions like Supabase or the classic Docker Compose. However, the shared downside with these solutions is that they require some setup when it comes to deploying, unlike the magic of Vercel.
I do wonder when we started losing interest about where our code is actually being executed ?
> when we started losing interest about where our code is actually being executed
I don't think we did - it's more that new programmers aren't forced to learn it, and a lot of them are lazy and only here for the money. The result is a lot of people who think all that matters is shipping quickly. To them, it doesn't matter that this will result in lots more work down the road once the product needs to scale up.
Not scaling up until needed is a fine strategy. Most products fail, so they don't ever need to scale up and spending the engineering hours to make it bulletproof is literally wasted effort. Wasting time and money at the start of a companies lifetime makes it more likely the business will go up in the first place. If you need to scale up, you will have lots more revenue to pay for that work than you do at the beginning.
I do wonder when we started losing interest about where our code is actually being executed ?