Preface
I was lucky enough to fall in love with building software all the way back in 1997. This started with toy projects in Visual Basic (yikes) or HTML (yes, the <blink> and marquee tags appeared from time to time), and eventually moved on to “real work” using “more mature languages” like C#, Java, and Python. Throughout that time the infrastructure hosting these projects followed a similar evolution, starting with free static hosting and moving on to the “grown-up” hosting options like virtual private servers or dedicated hosts in a colocation facility. This certainly got the job done, but scaling up and down was frustrating (you had to place an order and wait a little bit), and the minimum purchase was usually a full calendar year.
But ...
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