3 ms·
I stick to serverless setups and platforms like Heroku wherever I can. The whole idea of state being stored on a web server or having to SSH in to them to do an
by seanwilson 9y ago
I stick to serverless setups and platforms like Heroku wherever I can. The whole idea of state being stored on a web server or having to SSH in to them to do any form of admin makes my skin crawl now.
- betaby 9y agoIt's not because 'there is no state' - you just outsourced state(s) to the third party.
- draw_down 9y agoThanks, professor
- seanwilson 9y agoI think it's more the case that typical e.g. VPS setups introduce state where you shouldn't have state at all. Web servers for example should typically have minimal state for scalability and robustness but for most VPS setups this is not the case. If the VPS got wiped it could take days of work to get up and running again, and if you wanted to scale horizontally you'll have some reengineering to do. You could try and replicate something like Heroku yourself to minimise state on your web servers but it'll take you a lot of time and won't be as robust.