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Considering it's like 20 simple requests per second, you can do it on a couple of tiny virtual servers (for geo and redundancy), totaling less than $10 per mont

Considering it's like 20 simple requests per second, you can do it on a couple of tiny virtual servers (for geo and redundancy), totaling less than $10 per month.

orf 9y ago
the hard bit is the API key and usage monitoring. you could write the whole thing as Cloudflare workers for $5 per month else. $20 for 55 'servers' spread worldwide isn't bad, with no maintenance overhead.
- zackbloom 9y ago
  Writing Javascript is, in my experience, much more pleasant than writing VCL, and Cloudflare has over 150 points of presence.
jonathan-kosgei 9y ago
It would also take some work to scale
JrSchild 9y ago
My strategy is to use Cloudflare workers to invoke a Lambda function. This way I have a cheap AWS API Gateway replacement. $3.70 per 1M requests becomes only $0.50. Costing my only $12.5 for 25M requests + the Lambda invocations which are hella cheap.
- jonathan-kosgei 9y ago
  Interesting strategy mate! Any links on how to do that? I've googled a bit but haven't find anything on this!
  - zackbloom 9y ago
    I don't know if there are any great blog posts on it yet (write one!) but you can read more about Workers here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/
  - JrSchild 9y ago
    https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-unleashed/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-unleashed/ Yes check this out. What you'll have to do is build the aws sdk into a single javascript file that runs as a Web Worker. These are distributed to over a 100 servers worldwide. Then you would want to invoke the Lambda function from the worker, link below. You could potentially distribute this further by invoking a Lambda function geographically close to that specific worker. But this setup will be very fast already. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/Lambda.html#invoke-property https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/Lamb...
    - jonathan-kosgei 9y ago
      Awesome! Thanks!
  - JrSchild 9y ago
    It might be cool to create a tool that automatically turns a serverless.json file into Cloudflare workers that acts as little AWS API Gateway services. If anyone is up for swapping ideas, I made a GitHub repo: https://github.com/JrSchild/cloudflare-lambda https://github.com/JrSchild/cloudflare-lambda

Considering it's like 20 simple requests per second, you can do it on a couple of tiny virtual servers (for geo and redundancy), totaling less than $10 per month.

orf 9y ago

the hard bit is the API key and usage monitoring. you could write the whole thing as Cloudflare workers for $5 per month else. $20 for 55 'servers' spread worldwide isn't bad, with no maintenance overhead.

zackbloom 9y ago
Writing Javascript is, in my experience, much more pleasant than writing VCL, and Cloudflare has over 150 points of presence.

jonathan-kosgei 9y ago

It would also take some work to scale

JrSchild 9y ago

My strategy is to use Cloudflare workers to invoke a Lambda function. This way I have a cheap AWS API Gateway replacement. $3.70 per 1M requests becomes only $0.50. Costing my only $12.5 for 25M requests + the Lambda invocations which are hella cheap.

jonathan-kosgei 9y ago
Interesting strategy mate! Any links on how to do that? I've googled a bit but haven't find anything on this!
- zackbloom 9y ago
  I don't know if there are any great blog posts on it yet (write one!) but you can read more about Workers here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/ https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/about/
- JrSchild 9y ago
  https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-unleashed/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-unleashed/ Yes check this out. What you'll have to do is build the aws sdk into a single javascript file that runs as a Web Worker. These are distributed to over a 100 servers worldwide. Then you would want to invoke the Lambda function from the worker, link below. You could potentially distribute this further by invoking a Lambda function geographically close to that specific worker. But this setup will be very fast already. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/Lambda.html#invoke-property https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/latest/AWS/Lamb...
  - jonathan-kosgei 9y ago
    Awesome! Thanks!
- JrSchild 9y ago
  It might be cool to create a tool that automatically turns a serverless.json file into Cloudflare workers that acts as little AWS API Gateway services. If anyone is up for swapping ideas, I made a GitHub repo: https://github.com/JrSchild/cloudflare-lambda https://github.com/JrSchild/cloudflare-lambda