Anecdotally, we've seen a number of larger "open-source alternative to X" projects posted on HN of late that are technically self-deployable, but require so much up-front knowledge that it's not actually accessible to those who might truly be liberated by such software.
I mean no slander or disrespect to anyone involved, but there was a DataDog alternative posted sometime in the last few weeks that had a docker-compose with like 15 containers in it. Required running a few different Typescript servers, a Clickhouse instance, Redis, MySQL, the lot of it. I'm sure it was a fully-featured service that made adequate use of those resources, but it also reminded me of why people pay out the wazoo for DataDog: nobody wants to manage all that stuff!
EDIT: the repo linked in the GP contains 3 instances of what you could call databases: MariaDB, Mongo, and Redis. There doesn't appear to be any explanation in the deployment docs for why all three are necessary.
I mean no slander or disrespect to anyone involved, but there was a DataDog alternative posted sometime in the last few weeks that had a docker-compose with like 15 containers in it. Required running a few different Typescript servers, a Clickhouse instance, Redis, MySQL, the lot of it. I'm sure it was a fully-featured service that made adequate use of those resources, but it also reminded me of why people pay out the wazoo for DataDog: nobody wants to manage all that stuff!
EDIT: the repo linked in the GP contains 3 instances of what you could call databases: MariaDB, Mongo, and Redis. There doesn't appear to be any explanation in the deployment docs for why all three are necessary.