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Microsoft takes on Netlify, Vercel with static web app publishing

35 points by aloukissas 6y ago

throwawaysea 6y ago
Seems like more big company crowding into niches innovated on by smaller players because they can't come up with innovation of their own. We need new antitrust laws to prevent the degree of capital and labor accumulation that hinder innovation and sustained healthy competition.
- CraftThatBlock 6y ago
  Seems like most companies have one of these, including Google (Firebase Hosting + Functions). It seems like a common platform, however I always have trouble imagining what is the use case, especially in scalability (Function/Lambda is fine for small projects, but feels like it's not widely scalable and still has a lot or limitations)
  - aloukissas 6y ago
    The best way to think about lambda at scale is as "glue layer" that is a way to call your backend (e.g. on GCP/AWS). But as you're getting started, you can just do all the functionality on serverless, w/o dealing with deploys, etc.
    - CraftThatBlock 6y ago
      What would be the benefits vs hitting your API directly? (Having a "normal" API server)
      - curryst 6y ago
        It has some value add features, like authentication that you don't have to handle. It's also an autoscaling API layer if all it needs to do is query several of your backend services. It's probably less useful if you have a monolithic app so all the requests are just passed through, unless you use a lot of the value adds. I'm not a Lambda expert though, there might be things I missed.
qppo 6y ago
Is there a better link to the product and its features instead of a tutorial?
- deleted 6y ago
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- aloukissas 6y ago
  This is the one I found, sorry :/ But it looks like pretty close feature parity with Netlify and Vercel.
  - type0 6y ago
    You shouldn't editorialize the title like you did. If sctb or dang see this thread and could change it - Static Web Apps from Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/static/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/stati... would certainly be a better description.
    - aloukissas 6y ago
      Why shouldn't one do that? I found this to be the best description and I used it. Isn't this the way forums work?
      - type0 6y ago
        It could very well be the best description, title mentions names of 2 companies. Why not other? You see it becomes to pedantic to fast when everyone puts their own title after their liking. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. "
        aloukissas 6y ago
        Gotcha! Wasn't really aware of this.
brutal_chaos_ 6y ago
Could this be "geocities" anew?

35 points by aloukissas 6y ago

Seems like more big company crowding into niches innovated on by smaller players because they can't come up with innovation of their own. We need new antitrust laws to prevent the degree of capital and labor accumulation that hinder innovation and sustained healthy competition.

CraftThatBlock 6y ago
Seems like most companies have one of these, including Google (Firebase Hosting + Functions). It seems like a common platform, however I always have trouble imagining what is the use case, especially in scalability (Function/Lambda is fine for small projects, but feels like it's not widely scalable and still has a lot or limitations)
- aloukissas 6y ago
  The best way to think about lambda at scale is as "glue layer" that is a way to call your backend (e.g. on GCP/AWS). But as you're getting started, you can just do all the functionality on serverless, w/o dealing with deploys, etc.
  - CraftThatBlock 6y ago
    What would be the benefits vs hitting your API directly? (Having a "normal" API server)
    - curryst 6y ago
      It has some value add features, like authentication that you don't have to handle. It's also an autoscaling API layer if all it needs to do is query several of your backend services. It's probably less useful if you have a monolithic app so all the requests are just passed through, unless you use a lot of the value adds. I'm not a Lambda expert though, there might be things I missed.

qppo 6y ago

Is there a better link to the product and its features instead of a tutorial?

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aloukissas 6y ago
This is the one I found, sorry :/ But it looks like pretty close feature parity with Netlify and Vercel.
- type0 6y ago
  You shouldn't editorialize the title like you did. If sctb or dang see this thread and could change it - Static Web Apps from Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/static/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/app-service/stati... would certainly be a better description.
  - aloukissas 6y ago
    Why shouldn't one do that? I found this to be the best description and I used it. Isn't this the way forums work?
    - type0 6y ago
      It could very well be the best description, title mentions names of 2 companies. Why not other? You see it becomes to pedantic to fast when everyone puts their own title after their liking. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. "
      - aloukissas 6y ago
        Gotcha! Wasn't really aware of this.

brutal_chaos_ 6y ago

Could this be "geocities" anew?