> Not sure where that fear comes from.

Probably because most developers these days have not known a world without using cloud providers, with AWS being 20 years old now.

Racking your own hardware doesn’t get you web UIs and APIs out of the box. At least it didn’t 2 decades ago.

	▲	satvikpendem 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, now it does however (via the many OSS PaaS) so the calculus must also therefore change.