$1 per KB read per second.
I'm confused, what does it exactly mean? You pay $1 for every KB read from DB, so 10MB will cost you $10.240 or what?
Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development
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Re: Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development
#12Unlike most development environments, Bowery requires an internet connection. And I'm out. So, this seems like a sort of Google App Engine, but running on Node? BoweryDB and the Cache sound just like what App Engine provides - except that the App Engine also runs on my local dev box. The problem with this (and the App Engine) is that it's totally locked in. Your database is proprietary, your middleware is proprietary…
AppEngine's lockin is significantly overstated. AppScale exists and works well.
Re: Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development
#13I had a cursory glance, and this has nothing to do with Twitter's Bower[1], a package manager for web libraries (hell, even the TLD is the same). Bowery is a misleading name, and it gives the impression they are somehow related.
[1] http://bower.io/
Re: Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development
#14I combed your entire website and I don't have any answers as to what your product does or why it is the future of Web development and I'm not interested in giving you my email address to find out.
Re: Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development
#15$1 per KB read per second.
$2 per KB written per second.
wait. what?
Re: Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development
#16"$1 per KB read per second.
$2 per KB written per second."
I'm out. Completely killed any interest right here. This pricing is just ludicrous.
Re: Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development
#17My take: Bowery is basically Google App Engine for Node.js.
Of course, they put their own spin on things. The whole 'bowery connect' thing is unusual - they say that your "dev environment is online" but I'm not sure what they mean. It appears that what 'bowery connect' does is initialize a git repository and starts sync'ing filesystem changes to a remote host. In other words, rather than GAE's more traditional "deploy" command, bowery is constantly deploying.
The benefit of doing deploy in this way is clear: it's much easier on the user (nothing to install apart from an editor), and it's much easier on the bowery people because they don't have to provide a local analogue to the hosted environment. The dev environment is the hosted environment. This is possible because, presumably, the hosted environment serves branch URLs extremely cheaply.
No doubt the kernel of this project has it's origin in a late night conversation that started, "What if HTTP endpoints were as cheap as git branches? What if you had an active endpoint for every branch?"
Re: Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development
#18"$1 per KB read per second. $2 per KB written per second." I'm out. Completely killed any interest right here. This pricing is just ludicrous.
Sorry, that's a typo. It's supposed to be in cents and not dollars.
Re: Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development
#19The documentation looks nice, but the pricing page is just confusing (at least for my colleague and me).
Re: Bowery – The Next Generation of Web Development
#20$1 per KB read per second. $2 per KB written per second. wait. what?
Hey sorry, this was a typo. It's cents :)