> unless you're hosting off of your laptop (please don't!)
I hate to tell you this, but there was a thread on HN about this exact topic not too long ago. While becoming less common with AWS, Heroku, Cloud Run etc, there are still companies large and small, that get it working on their machine then just run it off their machine until it breaks.
In fact, one of my favorite stories is a guy I know who does ML work gets a crazy multi CPU, multi GPU workstation for each project, and, when the project is running on his machine, they slap readyrails on it and ship it to the data center to run in prod.
I hate to tell you this, but there was a thread on HN about this exact topic not too long ago. While becoming less common with AWS, Heroku, Cloud Run etc, there are still companies large and small, that get it working on their machine then just run it off their machine until it breaks.
In fact, one of my favorite stories is a guy I know who does ML work gets a crazy multi CPU, multi GPU workstation for each project, and, when the project is running on his machine, they slap readyrails on it and ship it to the data center to run in prod.