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Cloud run is what zeit now was before it moved to v2. https://zeit.co/
What does it run on today? Or, is it multi-cloud now?
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> since I don’t want to risk having my entire google account locked due to “suspicious activity”, whatever that might mean. Agreed. I often second guess my usage of various Google apps and services since I don't want to trigger some process that I would have no way of ever knowing. The recent case of someone getting banned from using Apple Pay comes to mind ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841586 )
Sounds like self-censorship in dystopia full of secret laws. I'm glad Google isn't running a country.
I don't understand this obsession with running projects for "nothing" and contorting software architecture to do so.
$5/mo for a digital ocean droplet or $50/month for a a beefier VPS (or even dedicated hardware if you know where to look[0]) is not much compared to the normal monthly expenditure of people in tech on average.
If it was all for convenience/efficiency that'd be one thing, but learning "google cloud run" teaches you nothing about system maintenance, limits your understanding of the full stack, and encourages a myopic view of development, all so at some point when Google/AWS/Azure raises the temperature of the water in the pot everyone starts wondering "how did running software get so expensive?".
> As long as you have architected your application to be stateless
Do the kind of people who have tech jobs and have side projects really need it to cost nothing to run side projects? I don't understand this obsession with running projects for "nothing" and contorting software architecture to do so. $5/mo for a digital ocean droplet or $50/month for a a beefier VPS (or even dedicated hardware if you know where to look[0]) is not much compared to the normal monthly expenditure of peo…
It really isn't a lot, but some people aren't in SF where they make massive profit. In more rural areas in the US, non-senior engineers can make ~$60k-$80k. In non-US roles, that's even lower. I can see this price range being meaningful.
Also, I know you can get cheaper with this, but if your goal is to spin up MVP's ASAP, you don't care to work hard to optimize ever penny out of your infrastructure. This is a nice breakdown, and I'll probably use it for the current project I'm spinning up as a test.
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I think the issue is you aren’t paying for it, so you don’t own it. Paid hosted services cannot pull this crap.
Paid hosted services can and do pull this crap, and it’s not just Google. “Digital Ocean killed our company” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
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Paid hosted services can and do pull this crap, and it’s not just Google. “Digital Ocean killed our company” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064169
At least DO was responsible, transparent and disclosured the bug for the public. After reading through the post, I've felt much more confident to use their services, specially after that comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20119939 Big G's policy is to lock you, provide no further comments and no contact link.
Another option is Google Cloud AppEngine. It’s a little more limited in terms of languages that are supported, but the free tier is generous enough that I have never paid anything to run backends for side projects.
started using this... pretty awesome vs the wall of yaml it replaces. Not suitable for all workloads (max 1cpu/2 gigs ram, 4 minute max pod startup time, can't do background work when not serving a request). But it replaces cert-manager, ingress-nginx, oauth2-proxy, k8s service, k8s deployment, k8s secret, k8s configmap, k8s hpa, k8s pdb, helm charts and cluster management.
I tried out Azure Container Instances a while back, and the startup times were also what killed it for me - they were all over the shop. It was 1-2 years ago, so I don't recall exactly and things may well have improved now, but I seem to recall they ranged from 1-5m.