Comment by hsn915

I think it was around 2015 when everything was basically AWS and Kubernetes

The turning point might have been Heroku? Prior to Heroku, I think people just assumed you deploy to a VPS. Heroku taught people to stop thinking about the production environment so much.

I think people were so inspired by it and wanted to mimic it for other languages. It got more people curios about AWS.

Ironically, while the point of Heroku was to make deployment easy and done with a single command, the modern deployment story on cloud infrastructure is so complicated most teams need to hold a one hour meeting with several developers "hands on deck" and going through a very manual process.

So it might seem counter intuitive to suggest that the trend was started by Heroku, because the result is the exact opposite of the inspiration.