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If you are comparing edge-computing providers, you should also check out EdgeNode (https://edgenode.com/)

Disclaimer: I am building EdgeNode with my friend.

Re:So, you want to deploy on the edge? on Monday July 31, 2023 @10:28AM (#36943052)
Great post highlighting important considerations before you make the decision to go on edge!

If you do though, you should take a look at https://edgenode.com, which I helped build (we host server-less containers on edge)

Re:EdgeNode – Deploy Containers Globally on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:00AM (#36631051)
Hey HN, we're Sebastian and Mish and we are working on EdgeNode - A global serverless deployment platform. Typically, most applications are hosted in a single location. This makes the experience worse for the users based further away due to high latency. Higher latency leads to decreased conversion rates, impairs user interactions and ultimately reduces customer satisfaction.

Amazon and Google operate their services globally to eliminate this issue and increase service reliability. However, setting up and maintaining such an infrastructure is technically challenging and very costly.

With EdgeNode, we want to enable companies to scale globally in a cost-effective and developer-friendly way.

EdgeNode runs your existing apps (Next.js, Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Spring, Django) or Docker containers globally on the edge, no modifications required. Your application scales down to zero instances when there are no active requests, so you only pay for the resources you use.

We're committed to make global deployments as simple as possible. To achieve that, we will offer a one-click deployment process, eliminating complex configurations and minimizing the time and effort required to get your application up and running on the edge.

Please sign up for Early Access and let us know what you think!

Re:The $5 Plan on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:25AM (#36629241)
My teammate and I work on EdgeNode, which is similar to railway but for edge deployments. https://edgenode.com/
Hey folks, We just released Garph 0.5

Garph enables you to build end-to-end type-safe GraphQL APIs using TypeScript. It aims to provide the best possible DX for GraphQL.

Changelog:

  - Updated the React-client
  - Added GraphQL Subscriptions
  - Cursor-based pagination
  - Included Relay building blocks (nodes, edges, connections)
  - Additional type-safety for resolvers
  - Updated Documentation
Re:Full-Stack TypeScript with tRPC and React on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:57PM (#35158466)
Perfect use-case for Garph:

You have a TypeScript backend and TypeScript frontend and want to expose the GraphQL API to third-party consumers or add a mobile app into the mix

And since Garph produces a spec-compatible GraphQL API you can use it with existing tools like Hasura, Apollo, Stellate, AWS AppSync, etc.

Re:Full-Stack TypeScript with tRPC and React on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:49PM (#35158316)
> Across all these frameworks, it feels like a footgun your users will discover on their own

Exactly. The problem with tRPC and other projects alike is that they don’t provide you an actual API that you can later consume, but an RPC “glue”, which is not based on any standard at all

This is why frameworks like ts-rest (based on OpenAPI) and Garph (based on GraphQL) emerged

Re:Full-Stack TypeScript with tRPC and React on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @04:42PM (#35158192)
Me too! Here are more tRPC-like projects:

- ts-rest (https://ts-rest.com)

- Garph (https://github.com/stepci/garph)

- zodios (https://www.zodios.org)

- Kysely (https://github.com/koskimas/kysely)

Show HN: Automate API Testing and Quality Assurance with Step CI

https://github.com/stepci/stepci/releases/tag/2.6.0

The HN community has been very supportive of our recent launches, which is why we want to give you an update.Here is what changed with the latest release: - Addition of OAuth (Client Credentials flow) and Client Certificate auth - Reusable credentials - tRPC API support - Load Testing (HTTP and gRPC) - Splitting tests across multiple files - Various bug fixes, stability improvements...

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Show HN: Measure CO2 emissions of your APIs

https://docs.stepci.com/guides/co2-testing.html

Have you ever wondered about the carbon footprint of your API?This week, the 27th climate summit takes place in Egypt. This inspired us to draw attention to the emissions produced by our online behaviour.We introduced some CO2-related features to our API testing tool: - Calculate carbon emissions of an API call - Set up a check to validate that your API endpoint doesn't cross the limit when...

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Show HN: Step CI – open-source lightweight alternative to Checkly

https://github.com/stepci/stepci

In our last post, we showed that there is an easy way to generate automated tests for Rest APIs from your specification.Since the last release, we have added some new features: - Generate tests from your API spec in the CLI - Run tests against gRPC APIs automatically - Get request and response information when your tests fail - Generate fake data and use them in the requests - Bring...

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> I have strong feelings against test generation

Thanks for your critical feedback.

Could you please tell us more about your strong opinion against test generation?

Thank you for the question!:)

You can generate tests from your OpenAPI definition using the “import from OpenAPI” button on our website.

The tests are generated from your request/response examples. If there are no examples given/available, we will generate examples for you based on the schema provided.

We’re sorry to hear that! Would you mind sharing some context with us?

Our OpenAPI (Swagger) integration is currently in Beta and only available through our website. We acknowledge, that it is not ready for prime-time just yet

Everything we do is open-source. You can see the list of issues in the repository and contribute if possible: https://github.com/stepci/plugin-openapi/issues

Disclaimer: We have tested our OpenAPI integration with the Petstore example and some other API definitions we had available. In both cases the generated tests would run after only some little adjustments

Hi, this is Sebastian from Step CI

Thanks for sharing Venom!

Certainly, there are lots of tools in the space, both SaaS and open-source. Mish and I can name you a few!

However, there’s one thing these tools seem to be missing - a greater goal.

Our vision is to give you a tool that will free you from writing and maintaining API tests ever again - in any shape or form. What you currently see from us is the first step!

Show HN: We built a tool that automatically generates your API Tests

https://stepci.com/

Hi, this is Mish and Sebastian. We are working on Step CI - a fully automated API testing platform for developers.Step CI works programming-language independent and for different API paradigms (REST, GraphQL, XML).Our CLI and test runner are available on GitHub (https://github.com/stepci) under the MPLv2 license.Since our last launch, Step CI is now able to generate automated tests for your API...

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Re:Show HN: Step CI – API Testing and Monitoring Made Simple on Thursday September 08, 2022 @11:03AM (#32766632)
Hi, this is Sebastian. We would be very grateful if you could help us with feedback on the demo and validation in general. I am looking forward to chat with you guys. Feel free to also send us a mail at [email protected]