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This is Amazon's wet dream. Your app isn't an app at all, it's just a collection of configs on the AWS Console. When and if the time comes to migrate off of AWS

This is Amazon's wet dream. Your app isn't an app at all, it's just a collection of configs on the AWS Console. When and if the time comes to migrate off of AWS, you realize you don't actually have an app to migrate.

impostervt 11y ago
I made this, so you can run a Node Express app in the AWS API Gateway. If the API Gateway ever goes away, it wouldn't be too hard to host your express app elsewhere: https://github.com/johntitus/legerdemain https://github.com/johntitus/legerdemain
arihant 11y ago
Or, you realize that your processes are so minimalistic and well structured due to lack of options, that you only have to write a custom request router over the weekend to migrate. Also, Lambda-like options are available with most PaaS providers now. It is not much different and might be easier than migrating web app from a custom PaaS. The only issue is, and has always been, the migration of data. And I don't see that getting solved until some startup writes a bunch of layers on top of a bunch of providers. It's very tricky, for good reasons.
- IanCal 11y ago
  > Also, Lambda-like options are available with most PaaS providers now. Which other ones are there? I used to use PiCloud until they were bought out by dropbox and it atrophied. Shame, it was exactly what I wanted in a service.
  - robbs 11y ago
    IronWorker from Iron.io is similar to Lambda.
    - ddorian43 11y ago
      ironworker is not per-request, it's like jobs that you schedule from a queue
      - sync 11y ago
        Iron workers can be triggered by HTTP post webhook requests.
  - jorde 11y ago
    Webtask by Auth0 https://webtask.io/ https://webtask.io/
  - arihant 11y ago
    Google Cloud - Google Dataflow, Certain App Engine APIs IBM Bluemix - IBM Workload Scheduler, RabbitMQ (this is weak, but similar functionality can be achieved) Microsoft Azure - Apache Storm (generally available now)
    - IanCal 11y ago
      Thanks for the list, I'd not looked into the google offerings for a while, they're actually much closer to what I'm after now.
  - _Marak_ 11y ago
    http://hook.io http://hook.io is an open-source microservice platform. We launched a month before Amazon Lambda, and have better features like full support for streaming HTTP.
    - georgefrick 11y ago
      But you don't have future price information; so it's a bit hard for an actual enterprise recommendation. This will cost X in the future, but it's free for now? Free for now is great for me as a tinkerer/developer; but I couldn't recommend it to a client?
      - _Marak_ 11y ago
        We do offer paid accounts, and in fact already have a nice size group of paying customers. Still in the process of establishing our service tiers, but our basic hosting plan starts at $5.00 per month. http://hook.io/pricing http://hook.io/pricing
    - IanCal 11y ago
      Thanks, I'll have a look into that.
  - parasubvert 11y ago
    Pivotal Web Services (which is like BlueMix, Cloud Foundry based, and you can run your own as it is open source) http://run.pivotal.io http://run.pivotal.io
    - IanCal 11y ago
      Cheers, being able to move on if I wanted is a definite benefit, thanks.

impostervt 11y ago

I made this, so you can run a Node Express app in the AWS API Gateway. If the API Gateway ever goes away, it wouldn't be too hard to host your express app elsewhere: https://github.com/johntitus/legerdemain https://github.com/johntitus/legerdemain

arihant 11y ago

Or, you realize that your processes are so minimalistic and well structured due to lack of options, that you only have to write a custom request router over the weekend to migrate. Also, Lambda-like options are available with most PaaS providers now. It is not much different and might be easier than migrating web app from a custom PaaS. The only issue is, and has always been, the migration of data. And I don't see that getting solved until some startup writes a bunch of layers on top of a bunch of providers. It's very tricky, for good reasons.

IanCal 11y ago
> Also, Lambda-like options are available with most PaaS providers now. Which other ones are there? I used to use PiCloud until they were bought out by dropbox and it atrophied. Shame, it was exactly what I wanted in a service.
- robbs 11y ago
  IronWorker from Iron.io is similar to Lambda.
  - ddorian43 11y ago
    ironworker is not per-request, it's like jobs that you schedule from a queue
    - sync 11y ago
      Iron workers can be triggered by HTTP post webhook requests.
- jorde 11y ago
  Webtask by Auth0 https://webtask.io/ https://webtask.io/
- arihant 11y ago
  Google Cloud - Google Dataflow, Certain App Engine APIs IBM Bluemix - IBM Workload Scheduler, RabbitMQ (this is weak, but similar functionality can be achieved) Microsoft Azure - Apache Storm (generally available now)
  - IanCal 11y ago
    Thanks for the list, I'd not looked into the google offerings for a while, they're actually much closer to what I'm after now.
- _Marak_ 11y ago
  http://hook.io http://hook.io is an open-source microservice platform. We launched a month before Amazon Lambda, and have better features like full support for streaming HTTP.
  - georgefrick 11y ago
    But you don't have future price information; so it's a bit hard for an actual enterprise recommendation. This will cost X in the future, but it's free for now? Free for now is great for me as a tinkerer/developer; but I couldn't recommend it to a client?
    - _Marak_ 11y ago
      We do offer paid accounts, and in fact already have a nice size group of paying customers. Still in the process of establishing our service tiers, but our basic hosting plan starts at $5.00 per month. http://hook.io/pricing http://hook.io/pricing
  - IanCal 11y ago
    Thanks, I'll have a look into that.
- parasubvert 11y ago
  Pivotal Web Services (which is like BlueMix, Cloud Foundry based, and you can run your own as it is open source) http://run.pivotal.io http://run.pivotal.io
  - IanCal 11y ago
    Cheers, being able to move on if I wanted is a definite benefit, thanks.