>> 1. Moving our stuff out of the cloud without going back to static hosts.
I move companies between clouds and on-prem to cloud, cloud to on-prem (even though a bit bigger one than 37singnals) and I could use tools like Ansible and Terraform. In my experience when a smaller company starts to writes tools that solve the imaginary problems of the CTO they are not focusing on solving customer problems and this usually ends badly.
>> 2. Giving new rails devs a tool where they can deploy their application easily, in a modern fashion
Could you share the comparison chart of tools that you considered? What thought process led you to believe that this is an unsolved problem and requires a new tool? Genuinely interested.
>> But judging a tool because an example used an IP address seems shortsighted.
How should I judge it by than? Reading the code? Figuring out how to hold it right myself?
I move companies between clouds and on-prem to cloud, cloud to on-prem (even though a bit bigger one than 37singnals) and I could use tools like Ansible and Terraform. In my experience when a smaller company starts to writes tools that solve the imaginary problems of the CTO they are not focusing on solving customer problems and this usually ends badly.
>> 2. Giving new rails devs a tool where they can deploy their application easily, in a modern fashion
Could you share the comparison chart of tools that you considered? What thought process led you to believe that this is an unsolved problem and requires a new tool? Genuinely interested.
>> But judging a tool because an example used an IP address seems shortsighted.
How should I judge it by than? Reading the code? Figuring out how to hold it right myself?