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$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?
Good call, I'll update the pricing to clarify that.
I am impressed by how much time I've spent on the site (and still don't understand exactly what it does or why it's worth $40/user/mo.) I am also impressed by how the future of web development is a node.js package. To the creators: you are clearly capable of creating slick marketing (the site looks great!), I'd advise spending some time working on your value proposition. The "Just code / Just branch / Just works" tri…
I am impressed by how much time I've spent on the site (and still don't understand exactly what it does or why it's worth $40/user/mo.) I am also impressed by how the future of web development is a node.js package. To the creators: you are clearly capable of creating slick marketing (the site looks great!), I'd advise spending some time working on your value proposition. The "Just code / Just branch / Just works" tri…
I think the cool part is that that you could do all of this stuff and not have to worry about any of the infrastructure. The node package only works inside of the hosting environment. You're paying that much money for everything to be hosted. It says in the docs that there's no local development environment.
I 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/
This paragraph is funny. They call it something other than a database, then describe what a DBMS does.
I also find strange version control is bolted in the platform, you could have just provided hooks so you can deploy from branch X or tag Y.
The idea is good though, I can see the value proposition.
My 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 "deplo…
I really like that
Go fuck yourself, Bowery.
> BoweryDB is more of a data management application then a database. It analyzes access paterns to cache frequently-used data, and knows when you make updates in your code to make sure the cache is never stale. All that matters from the developers' point of view is the code they use to interact with it. This paragraph is funny. They call it something other than a database, then describe what a DBMS does. I also find…
Unlike 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.
The documentation looks nice, but the pricing page is just confusing (at least for my colleague and me).