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Avoiding scaling the stateful part is also a path to hammer-nail syndrome - you start using less and less of the database system because you keep pulling things out since that's th…

I can't decide if I would enjoy reading real examples of these cycles. Just knowing how precarious the supply of natural rubber is, and how inadequate artifical solutions are (incl…

I live in Canada, things don't quite work like the US in terms of ownership incentives, but generally nobody is renting a house here for less than what it costs to finance and main…

Can you imagine if even a fraction of the effort poured in to k8s tooling had gone in to the Erlang/OTP ecosystem instead?

Agreed, we have our work cut out for us but the team is fantastic and I can't wait to share more of our vision with the world!

Honestly, looking at Oracle Cloud, I think the best thing they could do is spin off and just completely remove any trace of the name Oracle. You have some absolutely fantastic prod…

Totally agree. Lambda needs to 1/10 their costs or start billing for real CPU time and get rid of invocation overheads to really compete at these scales. Now I have dozens of serve…

Most if not all AWS services are really just HTTP APIs. A Lambda invocation is really just a POST to a public AWS endpoint. You can absolutely come up with login flows that obtain …

I responded lower, but dude! 2000 requests a second is hardly anything at all, unless the application server is doing some seriously heavy lifting in which case the architecture is…

The calculations are still a little more complicated. I think serverless is the future, but I also think we need to continue to put pressure on AWS to lower costs Lambda and server…