Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
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Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
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Re: Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
#2This is what people are missing on Lambda. It's pay-to-play, and for 90% of the sites out there, they're paying too much in comparison.
If you're running server instances 24x7 for an application that is doing serverless.io is a decent framework to get started (allows for local dev and testing, manages deployment) and is agnostic in terms of deployment target: AWS, IBM, Google coming soon, etc.
The only reason we're not rolling it out everywhere at work is because it assumes all developers are deploying directly from their term with god-like CloudFormation access. Nope, nope, nooope. We just need to build the deploy pipeline for it, and then off we go.
Re: Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
#3It's unbelievable how easy this is with Stripe in comparison to PayPal. I had to do the latter a week ago and it was horrible [1]. It's no wonder Stripe is so successful.
Re: Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
#4This is what people are missing on Lambda. It's pay-to-play, and for 90% of the sites out there, they're paying too much in comparison. If you're running server instances 24x7 for an application that is doing serverless.io is a decent framework to get started (allows for local dev and testing, manages deployment) and is agnostic in terms of deployment target: AWS, IBM, Google coming soon, etc. The only reason we're n…
But are they really paying too much? I can't think of a lot of products out there, especially those that have a recurring subscription, that don't required some sort of database. So you need a server running a database anyway. It seems that the subscription logic would be a very negligible addition to the instance you have to be running anyway.
To me it seems like the only sweet spot for lambda on a large scale would be for those that have consistent usage of a small instance that have some extra functions that need to be highly scalable and are very inconsistent.
Re: Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
#5This is what people are missing on Lambda. It's pay-to-play, and for 90% of the sites out there, they're paying too much in comparison. If you're running server instances 24x7 for an application that is doing serverless.io is a decent framework to get started (allows for local dev and testing, manages deployment) and is agnostic in terms of deployment target: AWS, IBM, Google coming soon, etc. The only reason we're n…
But are they really paying too much? I can't think of a lot of products out there, especially those that have a recurring subscription, that don't required some sort of database. So you need a server running a database anyway. It seems that the subscription logic would be a very negligible addition to the instance you have to be running anyway. To me it seems like the only sweet spot for lambda on a large scale would…
For data storage, you can use aws DynamoDb (NoSQL), which has some generous monthly free tier.
Re: Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
#6It's unbelievable how easy this is with Stripe in comparison to PayPal. I had to do the latter a week ago and it was horrible [1]. It's no wonder Stripe is so successful. [1]: https://fman.io/blog/paypal-for-saas-99-problems/
Isn't that why they made Braintree
Re: Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
#7It's unbelievable how easy this is with Stripe in comparison to PayPal. I had to do the latter a week ago and it was horrible [1]. It's no wonder Stripe is so successful. [1]: https://fman.io/blog/paypal-for-saas-99-problems/
Isn't that why they made Braintree
Not sure if you're implying that PayPal "made Braintree" or just that someone made it, but PayPal didn't acquire Braintree until 2013, after being founded in 2007 [1].
Re: Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
#8This is what people are missing on Lambda. It's pay-to-play, and for 90% of the sites out there, they're paying too much in comparison. If you're running server instances 24x7 for an application that is doing serverless.io is a decent framework to get started (allows for local dev and testing, manages deployment) and is agnostic in terms of deployment target: AWS, IBM, Google coming soon, etc. The only reason we're n…
But are they really paying too much? I can't think of a lot of products out there, especially those that have a recurring subscription, that don't required some sort of database. So you need a server running a database anyway. It seems that the subscription logic would be a very negligible addition to the instance you have to be running anyway. To me it seems like the only sweet spot for lambda on a large scale would…
You could use DynamoDB and S3 for persistence if you're taking the AWS route.
Re: Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
#9The problem is that Stripe is still not usable in the half of the world, including my country, Romania.
Re: Cheap Recurring Payments with Stripe and AWS Lambda
#10This is what people are missing on Lambda. It's pay-to-play, and for 90% of the sites out there, they're paying too much in comparison. If you're running server instances 24x7 for an application that is doing serverless.io is a decent framework to get started (allows for local dev and testing, manages deployment) and is agnostic in terms of deployment target: AWS, IBM, Google coming soon, etc. The only reason we're n…
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