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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by oblio on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:51AM (#24764225)
What if your ThinkPad is unplugged? What if its HDD dies? Why aren't you updating the OS? Did you patch the firmware for Spectre/Meltdown? Etc, etc
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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by discordance on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:19AM (#24764861)
OP definitely isn’t running code that needs an SLA if he’s talking about running on personal devices or DO
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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by oblio on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:38AM (#24765005)
I doubt AWS/GCP/Azure care that much about hobby code. Hobby code, that humongous market for development platforms and development tools :-)
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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by nicbou on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:07AM (#24773958)
The HDD died already. I opened it, moved the stuck head with my fingers and shoved it back in. I have good backups, and as someone else said, if it was important, it would not run on a recycled laptop behind my desk.

That hard drive event showed me how disposable the machine itself has become thanks to docker.

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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by oblio on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:45AM (#24774194)
You missed the point though. Serverless offers are commercial. They have little in common with your home made hobby stuff.

How much would you even pay for hosting? $2 a month?

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Re:The Serverless Revolution Has Stalled by nicbou on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:08AM (#24774650)
I didn't miss the point. You singled out my ThinkPad and I'm answering your questions.

My point was about having portable code on generic hardware, which in my opinion is a better bet than writing Amazon software for Amazon servers, and praying their prices don't change much.

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