Re:Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?
by 013a on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @03:11PM
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I agree; this is a rough part. There's always a rough part, no matter how you're writing your app.
I think things like the AWS SAM or LocalStack do a decent job at this. But, maybe more importantly, it requires a shift in developer thinking. Screw local development; yeah, I'll invoke locally during prototyping, but once the essential structure is done I'm going to deploy it and test directly on AWS.
I don't find the feedback cycle due to deployment time to be a blocker. SAM can deploy a function in 10 seconds. Its not an instant code reload, its not ideal, but its also not context-breaking like a 2 minute deploy would be (to be fair, SAM is capable of 1+ minute deploys, but that's usually only when you're adding new AWS resources like new buckets or event invocation rules, not when you're just changing the function code).
I think things like the AWS SAM or LocalStack do a decent job at this. But, maybe more importantly, it requires a shift in developer thinking. Screw local development; yeah, I'll invoke locally during prototyping, but once the essential structure is done I'm going to deploy it and test directly on AWS.
I don't find the feedback cycle due to deployment time to be a blocker. SAM can deploy a function in 10 seconds. Its not an instant code reload, its not ideal, but its also not context-breaking like a 2 minute deploy would be (to be fair, SAM is capable of 1+ minute deploys, but that's usually only when you're adding new AWS resources like new buckets or event invocation rules, not when you're just changing the function code).