Back at the start of my career I didn’t know how to code, but I got offered a role at a startup …

I have had and still have a few gripes against most low-code / no-code tools when it comes to actually relying on those. To name a few: - Often poor, or completely absent, testability - Often poor, or completely absent, versioning - Conflating “saving” and “deploying to production” - Lack of environments - Often sorely lacking, sometimes poor, debugging tools and visibility - Ridiculous choices (looking at you, Zapier and your absurd handling of JSONs and arrays of objects) - Poor reusability - Poor collaborative features It is my understanding that for some products some improvements have been made on some the aspects I’ve mentioned. But it also feels as if those behind these tools have completely ignored the progress we’ve made in software engineering best practices over the past 20 years.

What are low choice options when it comes to serverless functions? For example I make static sites and there's always times when I want to use an API that's either blocked by CORS or requires the use of an API key. But I don't know how to setup a server or how to deploy AWS serverless functions and I really don't have any interest in learning. Anybody have any suggestions?

There is also a danger in relying on a third party tool for essential business processes. If the third party tool makes changes and breaks your solution, or gets sold to an unfriendly owner that jacks prices, or decides to sunset their tool — you're screwed.