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A couple of days ago, I tried to search on how AWS operates RDS behind the scenes, since it is a managed stateful service I was wondering whether it runs in a traditional way VM-based or in a fully containerized environment? .. Unfortunately, a simple search will lead you to the consumer/customer resources out there only.
Aside: Lambda, out of Peru, is apparently the next virus variant we need to worry about. Edit: I had never seen the word before then I saw it used twice in two days, in different contexts. Just thought it was odd.
This is great! Awesome writeup w thekind of details that are sometimes opaque and hard to find documentation for. I recently deployed a NextJS app using Serverless framework (and serverless-nextjs), so Lambda@Edge... looking fwd to playing more with compute at CDN edgein general (eg fly.io). Amazing how easy it is, esp. as someone who came into webdev in 1998.
This is great! Awesome writeup w thekind of details that are sometimes opaque and hard to find documentation for. I recently deployed a NextJS app using Serverless framework (and serverless-nextjs), so Lambda@Edge... looking fwd to playing more with compute at CDN edgein general (eg fly.io). Amazing how easy it is, esp. as someone who came into webdev in 1998.
Considering your long experience, didn't you feel like we lost a lot post-PHP? I also stepped out of the PHP world into JS, and never understood why there isn't any apache2-modnodejs... And to me, the serverless JS movement seems to be just that, but with a lot of unnecessary baggage.
I'd encourage you to dive in for 20 hours in pure curiosity mode and see what you find.
A couple of days ago, I tried to search on how AWS operates RDS behind the scenes, since it is a managed stateful service I was wondering whether it runs in a traditional way VM-based or in a fully containerized environment? .. Unfortunately, a simple search will lead you to the consumer/customer resources out there only.
Based on how they bill it, it looks like it's running on VMs
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Based on how they bill it, it looks like it's running on VMs
Agreed. AWS RDS instance types are just EC2 instance types prefixed with "db." and you're choosing either single-AZ or multi-AZ deployments so presumably AWS is just spinning up 1 to 3 EC2 instances with some preconfigured software on them.
A couple of days ago, I tried to search on how AWS operates RDS behind the scenes, since it is a managed stateful service I was wondering whether it runs in a traditional way VM-based or in a fully containerized environment? .. Unfortunately, a simple search will lead you to the consumer/customer resources out there only.
It’s nice that AWS builds their own higher level abstractions on the same primitives outside developers use. Feels like they eat their own dogfood much more than Google where they bypass GCP and instead utilize underlying Borg primitives for many services.
This is great! Awesome writeup w thekind of details that are sometimes opaque and hard to find documentation for. I recently deployed a NextJS app using Serverless framework (and serverless-nextjs), so Lambda@Edge... looking fwd to playing more with compute at CDN edgein general (eg fly.io). Amazing how easy it is, esp. as someone who came into webdev in 1998.
Considering your long experience, didn't you feel like we lost a lot post-PHP? I also stepped out of the PHP world into JS, and never understood why there isn't any apache2-modnodejs... And to me, the serverless JS movement seems to be just that, but with a lot of unnecessary baggage.
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Considering your long experience, didn't you feel like we lost a lot post-PHP? I also stepped out of the PHP world into JS, and never understood why there isn't any apache2-modnodejs... And to me, the serverless JS movement seems to be just that, but with a lot of unnecessary baggage.
We surely picked up some baggage. Much of it vendor specific. But also we jettison some? You stick a lambda into API gateway and you're on the internet. No servers. No linux setup. No apache conf. I'd encourage you to dive in for 20 hours in pure curiosity mode and see what you find.