Some years back, we used the brilliant grails 2.4 to develop a very large application very quickly. In those days, you had to manage your own linux VMs and grails installations.
Grails 3 and 4 broke many critical features for no real benefit, and there was no upgrade path so we abandoned grails.
Now we are used to cloud deployments where our apps get directly pushed to a service from Git, we cant imagine going back to managing our own virtual servers, networking, load balancing etc.
Is there any auto scaling cloud service where we can just fire and forget a grails app, like Azure Web App service?
There are various databases as a service for that piece (including Azure SQL managed instance, which would be interesting if grails supported it).