MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform

I am a big fan of jamstack. For a lot of my client's use cases it allows me to save them a lot of money and headaches while delivering a better product, especially with a headless CMS like Netlify CMS

Re: MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform

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Post by rsstack » Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 4:19 PM UTC

rndgermandude wrote: post #4

Am I the only one put off by the AWS (S3+Lambda) lock-in they seem to be creating for themselves?

It should only take a couple of days to switch those to a different cloud provider. When building a Jamstack website there is only very thin logic in the Lambda itself, and S3 is only used as managed file storage.

Re: MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform

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Post by fallat » Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 4:20 PM UTC

rndgermandude wrote: post #4

Am I the only one put off by the AWS (S3+Lambda) lock-in they seem to be creating for themselves?

and GitHub...

Re: MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform

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Post by striking » Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 4:21 PM UTC

rndgermandude wrote: post #4

Am I the only one put off by the AWS (S3+Lambda) lock-in they seem to be creating for themselves?

S3 is just files and Lambda is just FaaS, you can host your own open source versions of these tools and not encounter an issue.

This would be a more solid argument if they were using a lot of AWS features together, but you could replace this with Minio and FastCGI if you really wanted to.

Re: MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform

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Post by rsstack » Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 4:22 PM UTC

julianlam wrote: post #3

First impressions: PR model via GitHub, good. That new platform schema diagram for Yari, looks complicated.

It's about the level of abstraction. Kuma's "Kubernetes Cluster" is very complicated but it serves no purpose to include its details in a blog post that describes Yari. Yari's diagram is more detailed than Kuma's, while Yari itself is simpler than Kuma.

Re: MDN Web Docs evolves: Lowdown on the upcoming new platform

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Post by whalesalad » Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 4:26 PM UTC

oDot wrote: post #5

I am a big fan of jamstack. For a lot of my client's use cases it allows me to save them a lot of money and headaches while delivering a better product, especially with a headless CMS like Netlify CMS

I still don't fully grok the term. Is it a loose/blanket term sorta like 'devops' or is it a more literal prescription of actual requirements and practices?