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Imagine the engineer going oncall for the code this mediocrity generation tool produced. Are they gonna reason with chatgpt “why the duck did you write it this way?” or are they gonna zoom the person whose name git shows on commit during the incident?
The tool is getting better every day, although it will not replace the operator.
Another question is subdomain support: to have a catch all virtual host that will respond to anything.domain.tld and have wildcard letsenrypt enabled ssl with DNS challenge.
Those two problems make me think that my side gig has grown up enough to switch to ArgoCD/K8s, although there are many other problems that come with it (from my experience on the day job). For now I just do the certificate rotation manually, which is not much ideal but works with a couple make targets.
Although the performance was abysmal. It’s either their compute or postgres, but my import of 25mb json via a script took 22 minutes ($450/month) on job plan, while my 2GB digital ocean box did the same in 3 minutes.
Also email support takes 3 business days to respond.
But render has great potential. If they fix the performance and straighten out the support, they would definitely win over a lot of heroku customers.
Probably will just migrate to Dokky and be done with it.