Ask HN: Serverless Functions Without the AWS/Azure/GOOG Complexity?

#1

Post by blinotz » Tue, Feb 04, 2020, 11:29 PM UTC

Is there a serverless offering that’s focused on simplicity?

The mind numbing complexity of serverless from the big vendors isn’t worth the effort for building simple database driven websites.

Anyone know of anything?

Re: Ask HN: Serverless Functions Without the AWS/Azure/GOOG Complexity?

#2

Post by byoung2 » Tue, Feb 04, 2020, 11:48 PM UTC

https://serverless.com/ is a layer of abstraction on top of the big providers

Re: Ask HN: Serverless Functions Without the AWS/Azure/GOOG Complexity?

#3

Post by eyberg » Tue, Feb 04, 2020, 11:58 PM UTC

I'm involved with OPS/Nanos which deploy applications as unikernels to AWS && Google Cloud. The deploy and management of them have a very serverless like feel as you can't ssh into them nor can you install random crap on them once they are deployed:

I even called them "Stateful Serverless" in a recent article:

https://dev.to/eyberg/stateful-serverless-with-unikernels-4m...

A few cool things versus something like lambda are that they are very much cloud agnostic and they are stateful by default (although very easy to run them as transient workloads as well).

If you want to check it out - open source/free at:

https://ops.city

Re: Ask HN: Serverless Functions Without the AWS/Azure/GOOG Complexity?

#4

Post by lnalx » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 12:26 AM UTC

There are services like Netlify [1] and Zeit.co [2] but both are more expensive.

Simplicity comes at a price.

[1] https://www.netlify.com/products/functions/

[2] https://zeit.co/docs/v2/serverless-functions/introduction

Re: Ask HN: Serverless Functions Without the AWS/Azure/GOOG Complexity?

#5

Post by g123g » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 1:28 AM UTC

What makes something like AWS lambda complex? I feel lambda is one of the easiest and fastest way to get something out the door.

Re: Ask HN: Serverless Functions Without the AWS/Azure/GOOG Complexity?

#6

Post by amolo » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 4:35 AM UTC

Cloud Run? Pretty simple. Just a Dockerfile and you are good to go.

Re: Ask HN: Serverless Functions Without the AWS/Azure/GOOG Complexity?

#7

Post by frou_dh » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 3:40 PM UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

Re: Ask HN: Serverless Functions Without the AWS/Azure/GOOG Complexity?

#8

Post by freehunter » Wed, Feb 05, 2020, 5:29 PM UTC

byoung2 wrote: post #2

https://serverless.com/ is a layer of abstraction on top of the big providers

This is the way to go. Follow the guide at https://serverless-stack.com/ and you should be golden.

I’m an awful programmer and even I found serverless stack to be surprisingly easy to follow and understand.

Re: Ask HN: Serverless Functions Without the AWS/Azure/GOOG Complexity?

#9

Post by eb0la » Thu, Feb 06, 2020, 12:00 AM UTC

amolo wrote: post #6

Cloud Run? Pretty simple. Just a Dockerfile and you are good to go.

You mean Knative (https://github.com/knative) ? ;-)