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Re: Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend

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Post by jamil7 »

afterwalk wrote: post #60

The value proposition was clear and well written, until I got to this part: "you want to do it without having to standup layers of infrastructure on AWS or be beholden to the legacy players like Heroku or other providers who don’t get that you want the same Netlify like experience on the backend." So exactly how is Heroku "legacy"? From past experiences pushing a simple backend service onto Heroku was pretty smooth a…

Yeah this bits kinda weird. Heroku is still easiest host I’ve found for throwing up an API + database.

Re: Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend

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Post by gscho »

afterwalk wrote: post #60

The value proposition was clear and well written, until I got to this part: "you want to do it without having to standup layers of infrastructure on AWS or be beholden to the legacy players like Heroku or other providers who don’t get that you want the same Netlify like experience on the backend." So exactly how is Heroku "legacy"? From past experiences pushing a simple backend service onto Heroku was pretty smooth a…

Heroku IS the netlify for backends. This product has good intentions though. Good luck!

Re: Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend

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Post by brabel »

brabel wrote: post #5

I've been looking for exactly that: a backend thing that's as easy to setup as Netlify is for the frontend. Micro seems to be a Go framework evolved to automatically deploy code to the "cloud", but it seems it'll remain limited to Go backends... I can write Go without problems, but I wanted something that supports other languages as well, specially Java... I think RedHat seems to offer that with OpenShift and Quarkus…

I'll answer my own question (after doing some research).

Besides the other answers, I found Cloudfare Workers[1] seem to nearly fit the bill (the only problem is that workers are written in JS - though you can also write them in Rust, C or C++, with the caveat that they compile to WASM, then are executed via the JS API).

Pricing start free! With $5/month you get access to KV (Key-Value Storage) and a generous amount of requests (10 million/month) which seems appropriate for my needs... and it's still in beta, but they also have consistent storage now with Durable Objects[2].

[1] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/tutorials

[2] https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/using-dur...

Re: Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend

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Post by lucasverra »

harrisreynolds wrote: post #30
rishav_sharan wrote: post #7

What about the database? All these Jamstack articles always seem to skip past a db in their examples and I have never seen an "app" without an associated database. Or is the KV store supposed to act like an app database?

This is a great point and one reason I am left scratching my head when considering building applications on the JAM stack. We are working on a solution to this with WeBase [1] and I'd love to see us do an integration with Netlify here where you build with WeBase and host on Netlify (and get automatic API integration with your data models). [1] https://www.webase.com

what's the pitch vs an airtable wich i already use ?

Re: Netlify for the frontend, Micro for the backend

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Post by harrisreynolds »

lucasverra wrote: post #65
harrisreynolds wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great point and one reason I am left scratching my head when considering building applications on the JAM stack. We are working on a solution to this with WeBase [1] and I'd love to see us do an integration with Netlify here where you build with WeBase and host on Netlify (and get automatic API integration with your data models). [1] https://www.webase.com

what's the pitch vs an airtable wich i already use ?

Airtable is a great platform and they have built a nice UI on top of their data modeling tools. But... they don’t allow customization of the UI. WeBase has the same power of Airtable for data models combined with the ability to create custom views like you would do with Webflow.
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