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Re: DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud

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Post by candiodari » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 12:48 PM UTC

styfle wrote: post #5

brightball wrote: post #3

> Serverless computing is in a much earlier stage of adoption, with nearly half of developers failing to clearly understand what it is. I've seen this called Function as a Service and honestly I think using that term instead of Serverless would go a long way to fixing this issue because 1) it clearly communicates what it is 2) there's not actually such thing as serverless since the functions are still running on serv…

Also it fits in nicely with the other naming conventions such as the following: - Software as a Service (SaaS) - a product such as GitHub or Slack - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - VM or LB as you find in Azure or AWS or Digital Ocean - Platform as a Service (PaaS) - sometimes called Container as a Service as you find in Heroku or Zeit Now - Function as as Service (FaaS) - a single function as you find in Lambda

What's the practical difference between FaaS and the old style mod_php, mod_perl, mod_python and friends ?

Re: DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud

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Post by yani » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 2:30 PM UTC

abledon wrote: post #72

yani wrote: post #25

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Yes. We are using DO over AWS. Our bill is $120/month. We serve 21m web requests per month for that amount.

possible to share analysis of what the equivalent would've cost in infrastructure on AWS/GCP/Azure?

I havent had the time to do it. I will try to in the upcomjng week

Re: DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud

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Post by ecliptik » Wed, Jul 11, 2018, 6:16 AM UTC

peterwwillis wrote: post #77

slededit wrote: post #76

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It existed but was still under development and not enabled by default. E.g. there was no graceful handling of tab overflows https://wiki.mozilla.org/Tabbed_Browsing/User_Interface_Desi...

Yes, I definitely enabled all the beta/testing features. Tabs may have been limited "depending on screen resolution", but as a gamer I had probably one of the biggest screen resolutions you could run, with a CRT to match. I'm pretty sure I was using an AMD K6-2 500Mhz with between 128 and 256MB RAM. Sometime after 2002 I built an Athlon-based system with a gig of RAM, so I could be mis-remembering my computing platfo…

I feel the same way about Phoenix. In 2003 I was running 0.1 on a Pentium III 450Mhz with 128MB RAM and it's still the fastest browser I've ever used.

The newer Firefox Quantum releases are coming close, but even then it's on a quad-core Core i7 2.8Ghz and 16GB of memory MacBook Pro.

Re: DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud

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Post by styfle » Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 11:14 PM UTC

candiodari wrote: post #91

styfle wrote: post #5

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Also it fits in nicely with the other naming conventions such as the following: - Software as a Service (SaaS) - a product such as GitHub or Slack - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - VM or LB as you find in Azure or AWS or Digital Ocean - Platform as a Service (PaaS) - sometimes called Container as a Service as you find in Heroku or Zeit Now - Function as as Service (FaaS) - a single function as you find in Lambda

What's the practical difference between FaaS and the old style mod_php, mod_perl, mod_python and friends ?

I think the difference is that you don’t know if the server is running Apache or nginx or IIS because it’s abstracted away.

The only interface is the input into the function and the output it returns.