Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist (2021)

Post by mrkurt » Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 10:18 PM UTC

015a wrote: post #50

Here's something very specific I've been thinking about recently. I think Google Cloud Cloud Run is obscenely ahead of its time. Its a product that's adjacent to so many competitors, yet has no direct competitor, and has managed to drive a stake into that niche in a way that makes it such a valuable product. Its serverless, but not "Lambda Serverless" or "Vercel Serverless" which forces you to adopt an entirely diffe…

Post by jiggawatts » Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 10:21 PM UTC

015a wrote: post #59

maccard wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Azure has container _instances_ - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/container-instanc... DigitalOcean iss not wildly far off it either. ECS + Fargate is the closest AWS has to it, but you need to do IAM and Networking to utilise it. If you're in AWS already, it's pretty good, albeit with some frustrating limits

Yup my bad, I meant ACI, not ACS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but these are actually not close to Cloud Run. Cloud Run's differentiator is its scaling metric; it scales with incoming requests, and has strict configuration to assert that each replica only handle N concurrent requests. You could maybe get something like this set up on ACI or Fargate, but it'd require stringing together five or six different products. You…

Post by elyall » Tue, Feb 27, 2024, 10:56 PM UTC

traverseda wrote: post #64

sethkim wrote: post #62

What's cool is that Erik actually acted on these complaints. Modal is, by far, my favorite developer tool ever and makes me hopeful not just for the future of software engineering but the entire tech industry. If you're a naysayer in the comments, I would encourage you to go give it an honest try, and consider again why you think infra has to be done in harder ways.

Alright, how to I search for "Modal"?

Post by stavros » Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 12:30 AM UTC

yoyohello13 wrote: post #47

stavros wrote: post #25

This isn't substantive, but it bugged me: > I'm not asking for milliseconds! Just please at least get it to less than a second. What do we measure "less than a second" times in?

Centiseconds?

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 28, 2024, 2:23 AM UTC

throwawaaarrgh wrote: post #22

The one thing I want, that doesn't exist, and won't for at least 10 years: immutable infrastructure. Oh, the concept exists. I can make some infrastructure mostly-immutable, myself. But the cloud doesn't give me it out of the box. What the cloud gives me are APIs. If I write software to call those APIs, predict what the allowed values are, predict the failures I might see, write about 5,000 lines of code to handle th…