Waiting for a standardized approach to serverless that lets us just write the code once and deploy to _any_ cloud provider. Right now, all of these products (aws, azure, do, etc) seem to have, at least, slight differences that would make it not possible to switch to another provider without some code changes.
DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
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Re: DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
#32Why would anyone tie themselves to digital ocean Single infrastructure code dies and the author can't usually save it Ask a heroku fan how they're feeling right now before moving forward with any single host approach
This comment is a great example of "What if it changes?" [1]
Re: DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
#33Ado from DO here. Happy to help in anyway I can. Super excited for DO Functions to finally go GA!
What is the underlying software used for DO functions?
OpenFaas? Firecracker? gvisor? something custom to DO?
Re: DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
#34AWS x86 Price $0.0000166667 for every GB-second $0.20 per 1M requests Arm Price $0.0000133334 for every GB-second $0.20 per 1M requests DO $0.0000185/GB-second So basically a little higher price for each GB/s but no cost pr request. AWS free tier provides 400,000 GB-s and 1 million free requests per month DO free tier 90,000GB-seconds of usage for free per month So cheaper in some respects compared to AWS. Google and…
But then why would I shift to DO. Not much delta to encourage shift. Even individual developer wouldn't find it compelling.
DO may try to better serve the existing users, not trying to encourage shift
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#35-- "Serverless Business Unit at DigitalOcean" -- i see a lot of "enterprise lingo" around digital ocean these days - are they still the best "individual developer focused" provider? --
Serverless has been kinda out of reach of non-enterprise but has a lot of promise for individual developer experience. There's no add'l vendor lock in if you use serverless platforms for typical (mini-)monolith deployments such as django+postgres
Re: DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
#36-- "Serverless Business Unit at DigitalOcean" -- i see a lot of "enterprise lingo" around digital ocean these days - are they still the best "individual developer focused" provider? --
Looking at their ever increasing pricing, no, I wouldn't say so. Linode is so far staying true to their promise of individual developer focused cloud.
Welllllllll... don't forget that Linode had grown very stagnant, and had no desire to cut prices, until DigitalOcean came along and forced the issue. Once DO showed up, Linode suddenly had to produce nice tooling and $5/mo VM's.
I don't think that would have happened otherwise, and I'd be really surprised if Linode doesn't follow DO's price increases within a few months.
Not really saying this as a DigitalOcean evangelist or anything. It's just that business is business.
Re: DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
#37I am a DO customer despite the cost being a little higher for my purposes than AWS. I like their UI, their email reminders, their pricing transparency, and their support.
I switched to DO from Linode a long time back for something that was relatively minor in hindsight, but I've never not been happy with the change.
Re: DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
#38DO's lack of SQS type offering seems even more strange with a product like that. What are people using to plug this gap?
Re: DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
#39Digital Ocean is great for spammers because Digital Ocean does not care to be a good internet citizen. Being a good internet citizen would be too expensive, so DO just throws up its hands and does nothing about its spamming customers.
Uhm, you just sounded like an add for DO here: "DO won't randomly shut down your account because they guess you might be doing something fishy like spamming"
...and don't tell me you don't get "spam" from AWS users. Only GCP is doing more policing, but as a dev I'd be wary of using them of fear of being labeled "suspicious" because some weirder scraping usage patterns or whatever.
Re: DigitalOcean Functions: A powerful serverless computing solution
#40DO's lack of SQS type offering seems even more strange with a product like that. What are people using to plug this gap?
Functions aren't necessarily always used in these kind of overarching structures. React frameworks like next.js use them to simply provide backend endpoints for data and logic. I think that's what they're going for, as an addition to their app platform more than anything else
Given the max execution time of 5s and the max memory of 1GB, it seems like that is exactly what this is. Some endpoints to fetch e.g. data off the database or some processing tasks for a frontend framework, like the functions Vercel or Netlify offer.
Nothing to build serious architectures with.