What's a good alternative if I want to self host and convenience?

I have some hobby sites I host on a VM and currently I use docker-compose mainly because it's so "easy" to just ssh into the machine and run something like "git pull && docker-compose up" and I can have whatever services + reverse proxy running.

If I were to sum up the requirements it would be to run one command, either it succeeds or fails in it's entirety, minimal to no risk of messing up the env during deployment.

Nix seems interesting but I don't know how it compares (yet to take a good look at it).

Naa, I'm just a programmer. Experience may vary depending on company and country, for me this has been true from tiny startups to global corporations.

Tangential, I don't even know what "responsible" in the corporate world means anymore, it seems to me no one is really responsible for anything. But the one thing that's almost certain is that I will fix the damn thing if I made it go boom.

Something I've been thinking about lately is if there is value in understanding the systems we produce and if we expected to?

If I can just vibe and shrug when someone asks why production is down globally then I'm sure the amount of features I can push out increases, but if I am still expected to understand and fix the systems I generate, I'm not convinced it's actually faster to vibe and then try to understand what's going on rather than thinking and writing.

In my experience the more I delegate to AI, the less I understand the results. The "slowness and thinking" might just be a feature not a bug, at times I feel that AI was simply the final straw that finally gave the nudge to lower standards.

> All anyone cares about is feature release velocity.

And at the same time it's impossible to convince tech illiterate people that reducing complexity likely increases velocity.

Seemingly we only get budget to add, never to remove. Also for silver bullets, if Big Tech promises a [thing] you can pay for that magically resolves all your issues, management seems enchanted and throws money at it.

Also, budgets. I have been vocal about being on-call, no problem for me as long as there is extra compensation (in our org there is).

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