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Cloud providers are clamoring for our business, and they each make convincing arguments about new technology. The goal of developers and engineers, however, is to be comfortable building an application once, whatever the cloud platform. HashiCorp is a company that saw this reality a long time ago.

Security is a chief concern for any web application, whether or not it's handling sensitive user information. For a small team, it can feel impossible to stay on top of the threats and develop strategies that respond to them. Managed platforms like Heroku and Pantheon offer to solve these problems for us -- and we can learn from them.

We like our networks fast and always on. Streaming video, instant pictures, audio, games, you name it. It seems almost effortless to consume it all.

The reality behind things that are so fine, so easy, is that it takes an awful lot of work to get all the details just right. I know how true that is …

Developing on dedicated servers is a real luxury, especially after years of doing it with localhost on my own computer. No need to share computer resources. No need to worry that localhost settings are different from a real server. It is a real server! Even better, I can fill it up with as many dev …