Talking Code

James Ward shares how the hosting landscape has changed for web applications over the years and how you can avoid some of his middle-of-the-night pager nightmares. Here's what to listen for: 00:47 What are the differences between hosting services? 05:19 What is a sysadmin? 07:14 What is the advantage of having people or a service do system administration for you? 09:23 What are some things that Heroku does for you that a lower-level server won’t? 13:36 Given all the choices out there, how do you think about where to host your application? 17:28 Why might one want to switch between servers? 21:58 What are container technologies and why do they matter? 24:42 What is virtualization? 26:44 Why are app servers fading away? 30:02 Are add-ons the way to think about services that are broken out? 32:06 Should startups use services like Heroku to start out or roll it yourself? 35:13 Why do people want to/think it’s easy to manage production systems themselves? 37:01 When should you begin thinking about the scalability