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Encore: Distributed systems runtime for TypeScript, written in Rust
- Alifatisk 2y agoIt's worth mentioning that its built by ex-Spotify devs.
- cipherself 2y agoI'm curious, why would that be worth mentioning?
- Alifatisk 2y agoIt tells me that the team behind this project have merits, they are experienced. It’s not some random people who had an idea. They probably saw a market for something.
- chii 2y agoi normally don't use appeal to authority as a form of evidence. The project/product should stand on its own merits, regardless of pedigree.
- Alifatisk 2y agoAbsolutely, and that’s a valid point. But to me, seeing who’s behind a product or project is interesting and sometimes helpful. For example (might be a bad one), the Astro.build project was a random project to me at first sight, but after digging into it I learned that it’s the same people (Fred Schott) behind Snowpack! So then this turned into something very interesting. Why? Because now I know that Astro is backed by people who have a good knowledge of running a project, and years later my gut feeling was right.
- chii 2y ago> years later my gut feeling was right and that's confirmation bias. what you haven't seen are the myriad of projects backed by reputable people that failed. So next time, your gut feeling is going to give you a misinformed truth. It's why i always point out each time someone appeals to authority. It's annoying i know, but i think a lot of people just don't think about their own biases.
- Alifatisk 2y agoThat’s a fair point but I would not agree on your assumption of me not witnessing failed projects, I think you were too quick to call it confirmation bias. I have had wrong on multiple occasions and ended up depending on an abandoned project. I understand the message you’re trying to convey, someone fully relying on authority is a complete wrong approach. BUT I do think looking at someone’s or somethings past can help you get a little insight, just a little.
- yarekt 2y agoIt’s both confirmation bias and appeal to authority, however, you can’t fully remove those biases anyway. the best you can do is just be aware of them and scrutinise projects despite their pedigree, or your previous experience. (It’s clear that you also understand this, no i’m in no way disagreeing with you)
- dontdieych 2y agoIs it somewhat OTP part of Erlang/OTP?
- esafak 2y agoThis looks like a cross between Heroku and NATS. Any users care to comment?
- halfmatthalfcat 2y agoWhere is the distributed part in all this? Looks like a typical runtime to me?
- ivanvanderbyl 2y agoI’ve been using the Go version of Encore for the past year. Overall it’s been really pleasant, a few rough edges that their team helped resolve, but it saved so much time on Ops that it was well worth it.
- bluelightning2k 2y agoI've seen Encore pop up here before and been impressed with some blog posts. But the product itself seems vague. I think it's abstractions to simplify cloud primitives. I like the brand, tone and presentation.
- yawgmoth 2y agoRecently have been enjoying developing with Azurite, this looks similar. Storage, queue, function, etc.
- PoignardAzur 2y agoWhat does Encore do, exactly? From the comments here and the blog post it's not super clear to me.