One thing I noticed after my initial experiments with serverless is that it is very hard to do basic development and testing locally (i.e. without potentially running the risk of a big bill). I would have thought there would be mocks of all major services that would permit you to do straightforward local development and testing.
Free Tiers and Resources for Developers
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#22Our developer experience platform, Coherence, just opened up a free beta for Google Cloud Platform (AWS coming soon) at withcoherence.com. We will always offer a free plan…
It’s a great way to get the most out of a cloud’s free tier - we help you deploy a production-quality app onto the cloud infrastructure in your own cloud account. And we add integrated cloud IDE, cloud shell, and a dashboard on top of it. Feedback welcome!
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#23Confluent has an amazing free tier that lets you use a hosted Kafka cluster for free.
The venn diagram intersection of projects that "use so little resources that free tier is feasible" and "need kafka" has to be vanishingly small...
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#24>[Oracle] 2 IPv4 for VMs, 1 IPv4 for load balancer
I've definitely used 4x IPv4s on an unpaid account.
>redislabs - Free 30MB redis instance
This runs on GCP btw, US east1 from what I can tell, so super low latency in that combination
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#25Honestly nothing compares to Oracle cloud free tier. Its amazing, you have a better VPS than 15$ per month can get you on any VPS host, even if its ARM, its worth it. As for CI/CD, I didn't know GiLlab gives you 50,000 minutes for public projects, the issue with gitlab is the recent limits make it really complex for an open source project to grow on GitLab, Yes I know there is the Gitlab Open source program, but its…
Thanks a lot for this tip, I wasn't even aware they had an offering and it matches my hobby project requirements very nicely.
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#26Honestly nothing compares to Oracle cloud free tier. Its amazing, you have a better VPS than 15$ per month can get you on any VPS host, even if its ARM, its worth it. As for CI/CD, I didn't know GiLlab gives you 50,000 minutes for public projects, the issue with gitlab is the recent limits make it really complex for an open source project to grow on GitLab, Yes I know there is the Gitlab Open source program, but its…
I've used the Oracle Free tier for a while as well, and it's been pretty good.
If I have a complaint, it's the really, really, really complicated management console. It's like they looked at AWS and said, "okay, like this, but somehow worse." I mean, it all makes sense, but you can smell the bad coffee and free donuts from all of the meetings with 192 separate corporate divisions on the invite list.
It took me a while to discover the free Public IP. I ran something on the free tier for most of a year, and at some point they did some kind of internal work, and my IP address changed for the first time. I didn't care before because it stayed up and unchanged for so long.
I have to say, it put Oracle on the map as a definite option for me. Even with the Bizarro World management console.
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#27Honestly nothing compares to Oracle cloud free tier. Its amazing, you have a better VPS than 15$ per month can get you on any VPS host, even if its ARM, its worth it. As for CI/CD, I didn't know GiLlab gives you 50,000 minutes for public projects, the issue with gitlab is the recent limits make it really complex for an open source project to grow on GitLab, Yes I know there is the Gitlab Open source program, but its…
I agree. I have been using Oracle cloud for free for about a year now for a side project that is used in production with paying customers. I had my reservations at first, but figured it was worth a shot to save me the $15/month I was paying Digital Ocean. So far so good. FWIW, I have a close family member who works for Oracle and they claim that they're sincerely trying to be developer/start-up friendly in hopes to g…
I'm less concerned that they're operating in good faith than that there are multiple competing interests within Oracle. Once (if?) their cloud offering gains traction, someone somewhere else in the org will decide that the free tier is costing them too much, and the screws start getting tightened.
They aren't unique among big companies to have offered utterly opaque and punitive pricing terms, but if they hope to use the free tier to attract developers into recommending Oracle to their employers, I have a hard time imagining it will be successful given what a terrible experience older folk have had with them.
Perhaps someday, people will forget the lawnmower analogy (and the reasons behind it) and they can start fresh, I guess.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
My history with Oracle tells me that whatever you're getting from them can't be worth it.
I've been using the free tier for two years and am yet to run into anything shady. Saved me countless bucks in the meantime (before arguing that it's like two seconds of work for you , remember that other countries do exist, and even something like DigitalOcean is pretty costly for many of us). Unlike many other free tiers you are not able to create any paid resources unless you opt in into the paid tier.
When you sign up with Oracle, you need to provider a CC. How can you guarantee that you're not accidentally opting in into any paid tier?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
My history with Oracle tells me that whatever you're getting from them can't be worth it.
I've been using the free tier for two years and am yet to run into anything shady. Saved me countless bucks in the meantime (before arguing that it's like two seconds of work for you , remember that other countries do exist, and even something like DigitalOcean is pretty costly for many of us). Unlike many other free tiers you are not able to create any paid resources unless you opt in into the paid tier.
The firm was build on digging its hooks into you. It could be great, and I'd still stay far far away.
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#30Honestly nothing compares to Oracle cloud free tier. Its amazing, you have a better VPS than 15$ per month can get you on any VPS host, even if its ARM, its worth it. As for CI/CD, I didn't know GiLlab gives you 50,000 minutes for public projects, the issue with gitlab is the recent limits make it really complex for an open source project to grow on GitLab, Yes I know there is the Gitlab Open source program, but its…
Even non-free tier burstable VM is super cheap. For example, a VM.Standard.E4.Flex (AMD x86) with 1 OCPU (2 vCPU) and 4GB RAM with burstable baseline 50% is just ~$13.05/month (($0.025*50% + 4*$0.0015)*730hr). With baseline 12.5% it is just ~$6.66/month. In comparison, AWS t3a.medium (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, burstable baseline 20%) will cost ~$27.45/month ($0.0376*730hr). DigitalOcean's 2vCPU 4GB Droplet will cost $24/month.
Hetzner deserves way more attention in the VPS space. They offer an equivalent configuration for just €5.32/month, and I'm not even rounding anything down.
And for about the same price that AWS offers for their weak boxes ("~$27.45/mo"), Hetzner will give you 8 vCPUs and 16 GB of RAM... Yes, the IPv4 cost is excluded, but it's only €0.61/month if you even want to have it.