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A frontend developer who wants to put a map in their application and wants control over the hosting and data faces some obstacles when using MBtiles:
* Need a virtual machine and disk space
* Need to choose a particular program to read the MBTiles and serve it via HTTP
* Might need reverse proxy and service monitor (systemd or sysv init) to keep it running 24/7
* Need to deal with SSL termination
The popularity of serverless platforms = evidence there's a strong market for delivering software without all of this.
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A frontend developer who wants to put a map in their application and wants control over the hosting and data faces some obstacles when using MBtiles:
* Need a virtual machine and disk space
* Need to choose a particular program to read the MBTiles and serve it via HTTP
* Might need reverse proxy and service monitor (systemd or sysv init) to keep it running 24/7
* Need to deal with SSL termination
The popularity of serverless platforms = evidence there's a strong market for delivering software without all of this.