markwahl

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Airbnb to lay off nearly 1,900, 25% of companies employees(cnbc.com)
7 points by markwahl 6y ago|0 comments
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by markwahl 7y ago
Repobus ( https://www.repobus.com/ ) yet to be launched will provide this functionality in DO or any other cloud. Simply add your nodes and that is it. It is a Heroku like platform on your VPS. Launching sometime in April.
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by markwahl 7y ago
Does Convox provision and manage the underlying Kubernetes cluster or depends on the Cloud provider's managed Kubernetes offering?
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by markwahl 7y ago
I might be wrong, but isn't Convox only operational in the AWS cloud. If I want to run Convox on Azure, GCP or bluemix, will this be possible? The empire alternative pointed out also appears to be another option only operational in the
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by markwahl 7y ago
Right, dedicated support should be available at launch. Thanks for the feedback.
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by markwahl 7y ago
Perhaps to answer the question, one might ask: How is Heroku different from Dokku?
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Show HN: A open source Heroku-like PaaS that runs on your server(repobus.com)
32 points by markwahl 7y ago|26 comments
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by markwahl 7y ago
The plan is to automate from server provisioning to deployment but of course I cannot build integrations with all the cloud providers out there. In that case, you could buy the server, provide the IP address and credentials to log in and th
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by markwahl 7y ago
Agree, I am actually aware of both services. Personally, I am not sold on functions yet mainly due to the high startup time. I cannot see myself building a project that leverages a functions framework specific to cloud provider X. I however
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by markwahl 7y ago
Right, makes sense, wanted to point out the service will also be usable on GCP as well as you can leverage any cloud host. You could buy a VPS from GCP compute, connect it and deploy apps like you are using Heroku.
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Ask HN: Is a Heroku like SaaS that works on your VPS a product you will use
4 points by markwahl 7y ago|8 comments