So this is different from running docker containers on heroku because heroku has 1 to n autoscaling but not 0 to n?
What are the other fundamental differences?
Serverless Docker Beta
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#122Am I the only one having problems to follow .gif "demos"? When I get to the image, it is in the middle of everything and I don't really have an idea what is going on. Even watching it multiple times, I am not sure where it starts, ends, what the individual steps are. Or is it because I just don't know enough about this stuff?
Oh, and to make this more than a simple rant/whine, some constructive suggestions that could possibly solve the problem: - Normal video with playback controls? - Add a clearly distinguishable "this is where it starts" screen. - Is there maybe a way to control playback of a gif via JS/HTML? Add a "restart" button. - Add a timeline into the .gif that shows where I am (similar to usual video player).
Even better - make it an ASCIInema which gives you all that... and the ability to record from bash and copy and paste commands!
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#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know of 1 large scale web application that is 100% driven by serverless technologies. The user experience (as an end user using the website) is pretty terrible IMO. It often takes multiple seconds for various areas of the site to load (bound by the network). It's also super Javascript heavy and just doesn't feel good even on a fast desktop workstation. Authentication is also a nightmare from a UX point of view. Eve…
Are you by chance referring to A Cloud Guru? I have the same auth0 and loading experience when using their site, and I suspect it's built on Lambda, but I'm not sure.
It is indeed. They can't stop talking about it in their videos. That said, I used their resources, along with some other online resources to get my AWS Associate SA Certificate and I can say I was pretty pleased with the content.
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#124Looks great for basic websites but it's missing the biggest and most difficult piece of cloud infrastructure. The DATABASE! Today you'd have to open up your cloud DB provider to the world since Zeit can't provide a list of IPs to whitelist. This is a showstopper for me unfortunately.
At Cloudflare, we're working on expanding Workers ( https://www.cloudflare.com/products/cloudflare-workers/ ) to allow access to your existing DB servers & offer protection with Argo Tunnel ( https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-tunnel/ ). We are also enabling Workers to write into Cloudflare’s globally distributed cache, reducing retrieval time for repeated query results. We hope this will be a differentiator wi…
Can your workers run Docker containers?
Re: Serverless Docker Beta
#125What magic will they come up with next? Sheesh. Cool stuff, looking forward to having some time to play with it all.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, and to make this more than a simple rant/whine, some constructive suggestions that could possibly solve the problem: - Normal video with playback controls? - Add a clearly distinguishable "this is where it starts" screen. - Is there maybe a way to control playback of a gif via JS/HTML? Add a "restart" button. - Add a timeline into the .gif that shows where I am (similar to usual video player).
Even better - make it an ASCIInema which gives you all that... and the ability to record from bash and copy and paste commands !
And save about a million bytes in bandwidth.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most databases are quite unfit for the serverless world that's becoming a reality, where the needs shift towards global replication, flexible horizontal scalability (sharding) and vertical (provisioned QPS). We like and use CosmosDB because it fits this criteria. We anticipate that Google Spanner, CockroachDB and similar databases will become the go-tos in combination with ZEIT Now.
Frankly I blame the SQL DBs for the rise of NoSQL. They didn't move fast enough for this kind of environment, and stuff like Cassandra fit that need pretty well.
That's an divisive statement. I'd blame people who were unwilling to invest the time in properly modelling their data on the rise of NoSQL.
Transactional consistency and data normalisation - pffft.
SQL is still doing very well running things behind the scenes.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Make it a webm. Then you can right click from pretty much any browser and click "show controls". See Gyfcat.
You can view controls on GIFs in many cases as well, I believe. Also, nobody seems to make use of these features, but GIFs do not have to loop, nor do they have to loop by going back to the very beginning of the animation as well. In particular, I find it extremely ineffective where there are GIFs that only show a "final product/scene" for like 1 frame before looping back to the beginning.
are you thinking of .gifv which imgur supports?
Re: Serverless Docker Beta
#129Am I the only one having problems to follow .gif "demos"? When I get to the image, it is in the middle of everything and I don't really have an idea what is going on. Even watching it multiple times, I am not sure where it starts, ends, what the individual steps are. Or is it because I just don't know enough about this stuff?
I do alot of gif documentation and its unfortunate that its hard to follow.
I only do this because its convenient using shareX and supported at the same levels images (no embedding needed), just traditional `img` tags. Also, it works natively with markdown so its convenient
The only suggestion is to download "Gif scrubber" or "Play this gif" or "Videoplayback Controller" off google chrome extensions
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, and to make this more than a simple rant/whine, some constructive suggestions that could possibly solve the problem: - Normal video with playback controls? - Add a clearly distinguishable "this is where it starts" screen. - Is there maybe a way to control playback of a gif via JS/HTML? Add a "restart" button. - Add a timeline into the .gif that shows where I am (similar to usual video player).
Even better - make it an ASCIInema which gives you all that... and the ability to record from bash and copy and paste commands !
I've not had the opportunity to use this project yet, but https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg seems to be another nice alternative. It provides the option of using templates that have playback controls or a progress bar. Also supports copying from the "terminal" like asciinema does.